{"id":293,"date":"2008-03-31T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-03-31T18:57:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T15:57:29","slug":"another-wd-failure-not-an-april-fools-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/another-wd-failure-not-an-april-fools-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Another WD failure &#8211; not an april fool&#8217;s joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2008\/03\/16\/its-official-western-digital-hates-me-and-i-hate-them-too\/\">one of my previous posts (titled: It\u2019s official: Western Digital hates me and I hate them too)<\/a> I described how 3 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wdc.com\">Western Digital<\/a> drives I owned crashed in 2 months. <\/p>\n<p>Last week I left the city I live to go to Athens, Greece where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fosscomm.gr\">fosscomm<\/a> was taking place. When I returned I checked the logs of my machines and in one of them I found this:<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nhdi: lost interrupt<br \/>\nhdi: status error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }<br \/>\nhdi: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }<br \/>\nide: failed opcode was: unknown<br \/>\nhdi: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT<br \/>\nhdi: status error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }<br \/>\nhdi: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }<br \/>\nide: failed opcode was: unknown<br \/>\nhdi: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT<br \/>\nhdi: status error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }<br \/>\nhdi: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }<br \/>\nide: failed opcode was: unknown<br \/>\nhdi: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT<br \/>\nhdi: status error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }<br \/>\nhdi: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }<br \/>\nide: failed opcode was: unknown<br \/>\npdc202xx_new: Primary channel reset.<br \/>\nhdi: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT<br \/>\nide4: reset: success<br \/>\nhdi: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21<br \/>\nhdi: DMA timeout error<br \/>\nhdi: dma timeout error: status=0x80 { Busy }<br \/>\nide: failed opcode was: unknown<br \/>\nhdi: DMA disabled<br \/>\npdc202xx_new: Primary channel reset.<br \/>\nide4: reset: success<br \/>\nhdi: lost interrupt<br \/>\nmd: super_written gets error=-5, uptodate=0<br \/>\nraid5: Disk failure on hdi1, disabling device. Operation continuing on 5 devices<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>This the fourth crashed WD drive in 2 months! It&#8217;s not an april fool&#8217;s joke.. it&#8217;s still 31st of March..<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nModel Family:     Western Digital Caviar SE family<br \/>\nDevice Model:     WDC WD2000JB-55GVA0<br \/>\nSerial Number:    WD-WCALL1025118<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Of course it&#8217;s out of warranty. Again.<\/p>\n<p>As Fuzz said, this whole thing must be a logic timebomb planted inside WD disks years ago to force us move to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solid-state_drive\">SSD drives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting pretty tired of it though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of my previous posts (titled: It\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":4326,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}