Drive errors

Mark Fraser kubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk
Fri Oct 17 17:38:23 UTC 2008


On Wednesday this week I started to get some errors on my /dev/sda1 drive 
which is mounted as '/'. The first I knew there was a problem is when a 
program tried and failed to delete a file from /tmp because the drive had 
been remounted as read only. I then shut down and did a fsck on the drive 
which fixed a few problems.

Now,however I'm getting thing like this in the logs:

Oct 17 18:29:39 Rachael kernel: [16621.527263] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 
512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
Oct 17 18:29:39 Rachael kernel: [16621.527511] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect 
is off
Oct 17 18:29:39 Rachael kernel: [16621.527515] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 
00 3a 00 00
Oct 17 18:29:39 Rachael kernel: [16621.527801] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: 
enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct 17 18:30:58 Rachael kernel: [16679.867602] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 
512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
Oct 17 18:30:58 Rachael kernel: [16679.867772] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect 
is off
Oct 17 18:30:58 Rachael kernel: [16679.867774] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 
00 3a 00 00
Oct 17 18:30:58 Rachael kernel: [16679.868201] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: 
enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct 17 18:33:01 Rachael kernel: [16770.372131] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 
512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
Oct 17 18:33:01 Rachael kernel: [16770.372152] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect 
is off
Oct 17 18:33:01 Rachael kernel: [16770.372154] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 
00 3a 00 00
Oct 17 18:33:01 Rachael kernel: [16770.372167] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: 
enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct 17 18:35:23 Rachael kernel: [16838.713302] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 
512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
Oct 17 18:35:23 Rachael kernel: [16838.718375] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect 
is off
Oct 17 18:35:23 Rachael kernel: [16838.718378] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 
00 3a 00 00
Oct 17 18:35:23 Rachael kernel: [16838.720974] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: 
enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct 17 18:35:23 Rachael kernel: [16838.725613] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 
512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
Oct 17 18:35:23 Rachael kernel: [16838.725785] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect 
is off
Oct 17 18:35:23 Rachael kernel: [16838.725788] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 
00 3a 00 00
Oct 17 18:35:23 Rachael kernel: [16838.731356] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: 
enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct 17 18:36:25 Rachael kernel: [16866.591394] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 
512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
Oct 17 18:36:25 Rachael kernel: [16866.591479] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect 
is off
Oct 17 18:36:25 Rachael kernel: [16866.591481] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 
00 3a 00 00
Oct 17 18:36:25 Rachael kernel: [16866.600211] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: 
enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct 17 18:36:25 Rachael kernel: [16866.607422] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 
512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB)
Oct 17 18:36:25 Rachael kernel: [16866.610114] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect 
is off
Oct 17 18:36:25 Rachael kernel: [16866.610117] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 
00 3a 00 00
Oct 17 18:36:25 Rachael kernel: [16866.619424] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: 
enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

To me this looks like the drive is about to fail, am I right?

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