Into.the.Void.

In one of my previous posts (titled: It’s official: Western Digital hates me and I hate them too) I described how 3 Western Digital drives I owned crashed in 2 months.

Last week I left the city I live to go to Athens, Greece where fosscomm was taking place. When I returned I checked the logs of my machines and in one of them I found this:


hdi: lost interrupt
hdi: status error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdi: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdi: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
hdi: status error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdi: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdi: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
hdi: status error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdi: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdi: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
hdi: status error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdi: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
pdc202xx_new: Primary channel reset.
hdi: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
ide4: reset: success
hdi: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hdi: DMA timeout error
hdi: dma timeout error: status=0x80 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdi: DMA disabled
pdc202xx_new: Primary channel reset.
ide4: reset: success
hdi: lost interrupt
md: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0
raid5: Disk failure on hdi1, disabling device. Operation continuing on 5 devices


This the fourth crashed WD drive in 2 months! It’s not an april fool’s joke.. it’s still 31st of March..


Model Family: Western Digital Caviar SE family
Device Model: WDC WD2000JB-55GVA0
Serial Number: WD-WCALL1025118


Of course it’s out of warranty. Again.

As Fuzz said, this whole thing must be a logic timebomb planted inside WD disks years ago to force us move to SSD drives.

I’m getting pretty tired of it though…

Filed by kargig at 18:57 under General,Linux
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