SATA hard drive stops working...

The sata hard disk became inaccessible all of a sudden.
This is what I found in dmesg:
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
warning: `smbd' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
EXT3-fs warning (device sdb1): empty_dir: bad directory (dir #60818152) - no `.' or `..'
hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read method instead.
ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90200 action 0xe frozen
ata3: irq_stat 0x00400000, PHY RDY changed
ata3: SError: { Persist PHYRdyChg 10B8B }
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata3: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata3: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
ata3: hard resetting link
ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata3.00: disabled
sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 304178327
sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 304178343
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 38022285
lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
Aborting journal on device sdb1.
sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 38011454
lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 0
lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in ext3_dirty_inode: Journal has aborted
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1183 mark_buffer_dirty+0x78/0x90()
Modules linked in: ext2 parport_pc ppdev lp parport serio_raw ppp_generic pcspkr psmouse k8temp i2c_piix4 i2c_core shpchp pci_hotplug sg thermal processor fan evdev button battery ac snd_hda_intel snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mixer_oss snd soundcore slhc rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib ext3 jbd mbcache dm_mod usbhid hid ff_memless ehci_hcd sd_mod ohci_hcd usbcore atl1 mii ahci ata_generic pata_atiixp pata_acpi libata scsi_mod dock
Pid: 3158, comm: SABnzbd.py Not tainted 2.6.25-ARCH #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8023a5f4>] warn_on_slowpath+0x64/0xb0
[<ffffffff8022f3b9>] enqueue_task+0x59/0x70
[<ffffffff802b3200>] filldir+0x0/0xf0
[<ffffffff880f6faf>] :ext3:ext3_count_free_inodes+0x3f/0x70
[<ffffffff802ccb78>] mark_buffer_dirty+0x78/0x90
[<ffffffff881018f7>] :ext3:ext3_commit_super+0x57/0xa0
[<ffffffff802b3200>] filldir+0x0/0xf0
[<ffffffff881034d2>] :ext3:ext3_handle_error+0x52/0xd0
[<ffffffff881035a6>] :ext3:__ext3_std_error+0x56/0x70
[<ffffffff802b3200>] filldir+0x0/0xf0
[<ffffffff88104fce>] :ext3:__ext3_journal_stop+0x3e/0x60
[<ffffffff802c7864>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x34/0x1d0
[<ffffffff802b348c>] vfs_readdir+0xdc/0xe0
[<ffffffff802b360f>] sys_getdents+0x9f/0xe0
[<ffffffff8020c5aa>] system_call_after_swapgs+0x8a/0x8f
---[ end trace 8502b8f5b8e06205 ]---
sd 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 0
lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
Remounting filesystem read-only
ata3: EH complete
ata3.00: detaching (SCSI 2:0:0:0)
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 120061954
lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=0x00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Stopping disk
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] START_STOP FAILED
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x04 driverbyte=0x00
EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #60030977 offset 0
EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #60030977 offset 0
EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #2 offset 0
EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #2 offset 0
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 38011454
lost page write due to I/O error on sdb1
This is twice that this has happened now. Before it was running for about 20 days before this happened. It has only been 2 days now since then, and it appears to have happen again. I have the earlier /var/log/messages.log as well if needed.

I know that this isn't of any help, but I've encountered a similar problem lately. This thread with no replies should have been updated to include some of the information you provide: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52354
I'm also using a Seagate, more precisely a Barracuda 7200.11 320GB. If the computer is left for a long time, for example over night, it now tends to freeze hard when I then start up some program. The output I get after a restart is pretty similar to yours. I haven't been able to figure out how to from a terminal check and correct the disk, but as can be seen by the thread above running the installation Arch-CD repairs the partitions.
I don't really use it as a server so I decided not to let it run inactive for such long periods of time. I've checked the hard-drive with SeaTools and it gives the drive green light. In rare occasions is doesn't load after GRUB (happened twice), but I don't know if that unresponsiveness has something in common with the freezing described above. I've checked stability of CPU and RAM as well and it does pass.
Another strange thing also happens if I first start up Fedora 7 64-bit on the system and then restart. The file system doesn't get corrupted, so that's good, but the boot process doesn't complete and then simply hangs with complaints and unfinished USB device configurations. That issue looks even more odd to me and I've never encountered such problems before.
I've no idea what the problem is. Could it even be a kernel issue, some new I/O instructions making my system "confused"? By the way the system in question has another chipset, a nVidia nForce 570. This is beyond the territory of my brain.
Last edited by KimTjik (2008-08-03 22:25:10)

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