Serious disk problem

[wG|Agent M]

Is ubuntu installed on the disks that your having issues with, or are
they secondary drives, and if secondary are they connected via usb or
pci?
Might be worth running a memory test overnight see if that returns any
issues?



On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 18:25 +0000, R Kimber wrote:

> I had an apparent disk failure the other day.  I bought a new disk, but
> when copying data to it with rsync the copy failed with a " Read-only file
> system" message. The disk utility suggests the health of the new disk is OK,
> but an 'ls' gives "reading directory .: Input/output error"
> 
> Looking in syslog I see some errors of the form:
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Unhandled error code
> [ 2498.348279] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd]  
> [ 2498.348281] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
> [ 2498.348282] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] CDB: 
> [ 2498.348283] Read(16): 88 00 00 00 00 01 5d 50 9f 80 00 00 00 08 00 00
> [ 2498.348290] blk_update_request: 20 callbacks suppressed
> [ 2498.348291] end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 5860532096
> [ 2498.348293] quiet_error: 80 callbacks suppressed
> [ 2498.348295] Buffer I/O error on device sdd1, logical block 732566256
> [ 2498.348302] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Unhandled error code
> [ 2498.348303] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd]  
> [ 2498.348304] Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
> [ 2498.348305] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] CDB: 
> [ 2498.348305] Read(16): 88 00 00 00 00 01 5d 50 9f 80 00 00 00 08 00 00
> 
> I have also been experiencing the occasional hiatus where the whole system
> seems to freeze for a couple of seconds and then carries on.
> 
> Given that two disks have had problems, it may be a motherboard issue.
> However I thought I would ask whether anyone knows of any kernel or other
> software issue that might be the cause.
> 
> I'm on 14.04 - is it worth upgrading to 14.10?  Could it just be a corrupt
> system file somewhere?
> 
> I'd appreciate any thoughts on this.
> 
> - Richard.
> -- 
> Richard Kimber
> 
> 
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