I think there's an important difference here:
Eben's:
> May 23 06:08:21 pc kernel: hdb: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Kwan's:
> May 15 17:13:30 helios kernel: hda: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete DataRequest }
I agree that on drives where I start to see the errors with
"DriveReady SeekComplete" , failure is imminent. However, I don't
think that "Busy" is necessarily an indicator of the same,
particularly when doing a huge data dump, as Eben seems to be.
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