[Smartmontools-support]UDMA CRC Error Count

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Hello!
I'm new to this mailing list, but I hope you could help me to solve this 
problem.

It's now 5 or 6 times that my system freezes with the HD led on: I can't do 
anything which involves disk access and there are no messages from the 
kernel. I have a redirection on tty12, so since switching console is not a 
disk based activity I can read the last messages. 

I have a 30GB Quantum Fireball AS and everytime there is a freeze I see that
"UDMA CRC Error Count" "RAW_VALUE" increases by 1 and "VALUE" decreases by 1
(I can see this on the next reboot).

After the last freeze I got:

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x001a   191   191   000    Old_age      -       9

Before it was:

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x001a   192   192   000    Old_age      -       8

And so on...

I changed the cable and tried a with new motherboard: I got the same result, 
so this seems to be a hard disk related problem.

Attached to this email is the SMART status of the drive.

Now, two questions:

1) What does "UDMA_CRC_Error_Count" mean?
2) Is my loved HD dying? :'(

Thanks for your help!

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--Tony