YAHDF (Yet Another Hard Drive Failure?)

Peter King peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Tue Mar 5 20:12:04 UTC 2013


I have a sinking feeling I know the answer to this, but just in case...

Yes, bash is slow/unresponsive; a reboot yielded the message that there
were file system errors; and my logfiles have the following messages
repeated (with minor variations) literally hundreds of times:

Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.826516] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833553] ata3.01: configured for UDMA/133
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833567] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled sense code
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833570] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda]  
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833572] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833575] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda]  
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833577] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor]
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833581] Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833582]         72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833591]         42 39 23 4f 
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833595] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda]  
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833599] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833602] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: 
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833603] Read(10): 28 00 42 39 23 4e 00 00 08 00
Mar  4 03:10:04 amber kernel: [477226.833623] ata3: EH complete


Looks like yet another hard disk failure. But perhaps I'm missing something?
Any advice/suggestions welcome.

The hard drive at issue is, naturally, the one containing /boot and /. It's
a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB drive, perhaps a couple years old. Right
now I think I'll replace it with an SSD, but again, any advice/suggestions
welcome.


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Peter King			 	peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Department of Philosophy
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