Hard drive errors?

Hi guys,
Ive been having a few problems lately, i hear one of my hard drives click, and then about a minute later the whole computer freezes up.
Im trying to work out which drive it is, is it most likely to be the one arch is installed on? or could another drive cause it to lock up if its trying to write to it?
I found these errors after rebooting:
Is anybody able to explain what they mean?
Mar 29 14:52:29 kane ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
Mar 29 14:52:29 kane ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x64
Mar 29 14:52:29 kane ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:08:d1:6e/00:00:00:00:00/e2 tag 0 dma 4096 in
Mar 29 14:52:29 kane ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Mar 29 14:52:29 kane ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
Mar 29 14:52:35 kane ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
Mar 29 14:52:35 kane ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x64
Mar 29 14:52:35 kane ata1.00: cmd c8/00:20:90:02:69/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 16384 in
Mar 29 14:52:35 kane ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Mar 29 14:52:35 kane ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
Mar 29 14:52:35 kane ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-19)
Mar 29 14:52:41 kane ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2
Mar 29 14:52:41 kane ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x64
Mar 29 14:52:41 kane ata1.00: cmd c8/00:20:90:02:69/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 16384 in
Mar 29 14:52:41 kane ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Mar 29 14:52:41 kane ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
Also this what does this mean:
Mar 28 11:24:05 kane sd 2:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 28 11:24:05 kane sd 2:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
Ive tried smartmontools, it showed some errors but running it again after my recent lockups shows no new errors so im confused.
Thanks
kane

Hi,
Try using HDtune to check the health of this disk.
Juke Chou
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Select the disk in the Finder and choose Get Info from the File menu; if it's format is listed as MS-DOS, it cannot accomodate files that are 4GB or larger. In this case, available options include:
1. Using the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to reformat the whole drive in the Mac OS Extended format. You should choose this option if you don't need to use the drive with a PC, and there's nothing on it that you want to keep and can't temporarily copy off.
2. Segmenting the oversize file with one of these applications.
3. Following the instructions in this article.
4. Installing MacDrive on any PCs which need to access the drive, and then following #1.
5. Install and use MacFUSE on your computer, and reformat the drive to NTFS in Windows.
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Time Machine Not Backing Up to an External Hard Drive - Error 11

Hi!
I am unable to backup my MacBook with my external Hard Drive. My Mac is a fairly new machine (September 2009) and I have backed up since upgrading to Snow Leopard previously but I cannot backup at all at the moment.
I have run disk utility and repair completed without any issues, in fact it told me that the drive was running ok. I have also reformatted my drive (mac os extended (journaled) ) and made sure the partition is GUID. The following is the message that appears when the backup fails:
"The backup was not performed because an error occured while copying the files to the backup disk. The problem may be temporary. Try again later to back up. If the problem persists, use disk utility to repair your backup disk."
I have had a look at the log using the Time Machine Widget and the following is what has been generated:
Starting standard backup
Backing up to: /Volumes/MAC/Backups.backupdb
Ownership is disabled on the backup destination volume. Enabling.
Error parsing SystemMigration.log to determine source volume of system migration.
Backup content size: 100.2 GB excluded items size: 85.9 GB for volume Macintosh HD
No pre-backup thinning needed: 17.11 GB requested (including padding), 148.45 GB available
Waiting for index to be ready (101)
Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/crox3tbo.pcf.gz, /Volumes/MAC/Backups.backupdb/Eric O'Mahony’s MacBook/2010-05-02-210743.inProgress/E450C379-52F6-48A3-99D7-F45043074122/Macin tosh HD/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/crox3tbo.pcf.gz
Aborting backup because indexing of file failed.
Stopping backup.
Copied 158300 files (12.5 GB) from volume Macintosh HD.
Copy stage failed with error:11
Backup failed with error: 11
The problems seems to be with indexing a file....a font?? Can anyone help me? It is driving me crazy and I need to backup my files.
Thank you for your help!

ericomahony wrote:
Indexing a file failed. Returned 200 for: /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/crox3tbo.pcf.gz,
The problems seems to be with indexing a file....a font??
Yes, indeed. Start by just excluding it, per the blue box in #C3 in the Time Machine - Troubleshooting *User Tip,* also at the top of this forum.
If the backup then runs ok, you'll need to figure out what's wrong with that file.
If you get another error, see the rest of #C3.

Time machine & hard drive errors

I'm using Time Machine to back up my OpSys hard drive to an external USB connected hard drive.
It will run without a problem for a week, or two weeks, maybe even a month before I get a message telling me the backup failed because (a) could not read from the external drive (b) could not write to the external drive. I'm told to run disk repair and when I do I am told it cannot be repaired. It is always an invalid node value. Something like the node should be 4067 but is 125429461.
Erasing the USB connected disk and starting over seems to work better if I first erase the disk using data protection (write 0s across the entire drive). I've never seen an error when performing the protected erase.
*Is the partition / format / erase utility capable of producing an error message if the hard drive has problems?*
After the erase of the drive Time Machine will usually be able to run back ups normally for a week, two weeks, maybe a month, before I get another error (bad NODE).
I also used another hard drive in the external USB enclosure and encountered similar problems before switching to another hard drive which is three years old but until recently was rarely powered up.
After searching for tools which would allow me to perform a diagnostic on the hard drive I have come up empty. This hard drive has not been used extensively. It spent most of the first three years of it's life powered down in a external USB enclosure, thus I am reluctant to assume the hard drive is failing, but anything is possible.
I did recently have this hard drive installed internally for a short time and never saw an error message when it was in use.
I'm beginning to form the opinion Time Machine might be the source of the problem, perhaps a bug in it's process. I have noted some other people posting opinions that Time Machine isn't very reliable in other internet forums.
While I could buy a new hard drive and see if that solves the problem, I thought I would see if anyone here has any useful feedback.
Another possibility is the USB enclosure is the source of the problem. An intermittent failure of some kind within the enclosure could easily make solving this very challenging.
I'm very interested to read any and all feedback,
Thank you,
~ Allen

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
It's unlikely a Time Machine problem; Time Machine uses the normal OSX facilities to read & write, they're the ones that actually manage the +file structure.+ Time Machine does use a complex and somewhat unusual file structure, though, including a huge number of hard links (sort of like aliases).
You're probably right that it's somewhere in the chain of port, cable, enclosure, and drive. So try different ports, cables, and combinations of the two (a plug that works fine in one port may not make good contact in another). If that doesn't help, it's probably the enclosure or drive.

T61 hard drive error

hello everyone,
I have had my lenovo t61 for over 6 months now, and till yesterday it was a rock solid machine. However I have now encountered a problem that is really posing problems for me. I would appreciate it if you guys can have a look at the symptoms and help me out
Lenovo T61
Windows XP Professional
Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo
2 GB Ram
yesterday after i booted the system up, the 'processing' light (the one that flickers with CPU activity) would not stop flickering even half an hour after the system had booted up. Loading of programs had tremendously slowed, with some refusing to open and some not responding. I rebooted, same problem. I system restored to a week back when I wasnt experiencing any of this, but no change. Upon checking the task manager, everything was at 0 except for system idle process which was at 99. CPU showed a use of 4%, which seemed normal. But the processing light kept flickering and programs would be extremely slow to load.
I left the PC on and came back after a couple of hours and I saw a blackscreen with white letters (like DOS) saying I had a 'hard disk initialization error'. Next time I booted I listened to the CPU closely, its not making random sounds, but seems to be stuck in a loop, the same kind of whirring just repeats over and over again.
Next I booted in safe mode with networking, the processing light flickering was reduced and I tried to backup my system... but many files would not copy and I got an I/O error for these...
I did some googling on this and one possible solution I got was upgrading the bios to version 2.14-1.08 (april 2, 2008). Now Im not sure if I should do this, incase the entire thing becomes worse.
I would appreciate any advise you can give me.
Thanks so much

@ alap. welcome to the forum,
please try the following two suggestions; remove and reinsert the hard drive to esure that it is connected properly. If this doesn't help, download and create a bootable cd from the iso file of Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test.
@ cputrooper, also welcome,
I suggest you should also try both of the above. Are you hearing a specific number of long / short beeps? Calling service was a good call HDD removal is the same as for T61.
Please let all know how you the results.
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