Hello! I'm a novice here, so I may not know all of the rules - feel free to correct me.
I tend to have a lot of problems with HDDs, and I have 3 SATA HDDs that stopped responding with the same symptoms - "DRDY ERR" errors during boot (I use Linux). I used all of them in the same PC and I guess the problem started after I accidentally touched/moved each HDD while they were connected by a quite bad SATA cable - it's hard for me to tell a good cable from a bad one, and sometimes I end up using bad cables without even knowing. First drive it happened with had "DRDY ERR" errors in the beginning, then, after my try to save some information, locked up completely and now even hangs BIOS when plugged in. Second drive gave me enough fime to at least copy my SSH keys, and today I just slightly moved the third HDD and encountered the same problems. I attach photos of this problems so you can see what the kernel messages are.
First HDD is WD Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX. Second HDD is Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9. Third HDD is Samsung HD040GJ. Enclosed kernel output photos are after booting from the third one.
Of course, my questions are:
1) Where's the problem? Is it in the partition table or somewhere else? Other HDDs boot fine on the same PC after one has failed... Until I move them, of course.
2) Is it possible to restore those HDDs back to the working state? It wouldn't seem logical for them to lose their working resource just after an unplugged cable, if that's the case, and if it's simply a matter of a hdparm/parted command or something like that, it'd be great to continue using them for me.
If you need some additional info from these, just ask. And yes, I'll replace the cable ASAP
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