sqlite error: disk I/O error

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jul 9, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:
>> I've had good luck with smartmontools (available from MacPorts ;-) ).
> 
> oh, that's nice. Now,
> 
> Device: IOService:/MacRISC2PE/pci at f4000000/AppleMacRiscPCI/ata-6 at D/AppleKauaiATA/ATADeviceNub at 0/AppleATADiskDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice,
> 4 Offline uncorrectable sectors
> 
> Does this mean that my internal drive is failing?

In my experience, any errors (including those) indicate that a drive is on its way out.

You could have many months of still working drive (I've even been able to force a drive to remap those offline uncorrectable sectors before to get ioerrors to stop for a while), or you might not. For me, it's been worth it to just buy/install something new.

> And does it not test USB drives?

I'm not sure where the limitation is (usb mass storage driver, usb<->stata/usb<->ide chip), but I've never had S.M.A.R.T status (or smartmontools) be able to check on USB drives [it's also a problem for some otherwise really nice PCI IDE cards I've used to put larger capacity IDE drives in older Macs].

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Daniel J. Luke                                                                   
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