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I am getting this error message on centos machine. Is my HDD is not working properly?? Please help

hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
ide0: reset: success

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Your hard disk is going to die, have you tried to run smartctl command?

Tutorial : How do I test if my Linux server SCSI / SATA hard disk going bad?

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When i hit this command
smartctl -d ata -H /dev/hda

Result:
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2007/10/26 21:49:03 $)

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED


Any iDea

More result
smartctl -d ata -a /dev/hda by this command


smartctl version 5.36 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is smartmontools Home Page (last updated $Date: 2007/10/26 21:49:03 $)

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST3320620AS
Serial Number: 9QF3WMB3
Firmware Version: 3.AAK
User Capacity: 320,072,933,376 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Sat Dec 1 01:37:23 2007 NPT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 25) The self-test routine was aborted by
the host.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 430) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 115) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 116 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 108686492
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 099 096 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 34
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 065 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 3538041
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1442
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 34
187 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
189 Unknown_Attribute 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 058 052 045 Old_age Always - 723845162
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 042 048 000 Old_age Always - 42 (Lifetime Min/Max 0/23)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 066 060 000 Old_age Always - 242235090
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hour LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 1 -
# 2 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 1 -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

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how come with RHEL and RH derivatives? i get that error/warning? when i replace the OS with debian/slack or BSD's i never got it again?
BAD REDHAT!
try upgrading the firmware and also disable smart in BIOS and in init.rd scripts. damn smart. it just eats my CPU and things and is a real crap. sorry no smart please, i preffer to be dumb. yes from 300 GiB to 2.1 GiB hdd maxtor, same issue, replaced with debian/slack. problem solved. HDD & BIOS firmwares, upgrade'em all!