I installed smartmontools

It says:

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=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     ST340015A
Serial Number:    5LADWSJ1
Firmware Version: 3.01
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   6
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Tue Sep 21 09:47:44 2004 CEST
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:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever 
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection:                 ( 420) 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.
                                        No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:        (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (  28) 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   075   075   025    Pre-fail  Always       
-       13688073
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   097   097   000    Pre-fail  Always       
-       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       
-       9
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       
-       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   100   253   030    Pre-fail  Always       
-       100230
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       
-       22
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       
-       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       
-       9
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   030   041   000    Old_age   Always       
-       30
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       
-       0
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
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

...............

I also changed the cable. Nothing worked :( 

Regards
Sebastian


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Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. September 2004 09:38
An: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Betreff: Re: hdd makes problems --> dma

> hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ← ??????
> hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ← ??????

Ooh.. that's not too good..

If this is linux, tried installing smartmontools and running smartctl -a
/dev/hda? ... also check your drive cable is secure and is the correct
type (80 vs. 40 conductor for ATA-100+ etc.)

This should tell you if the drive is suffering any incorrectable errors
etc. internally.