Greg Freemyer wrote:
What do the new logs say about reallocate? If reallocate on write failed, toss the drive.
Did you try the dd command twice. Maybe it took 25 seconds to do the first realloc, and now all is well.
Greg
Well, I just tried it again with very similar results, although this time it took 27 seconds to do nothing ;) # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda seek=57917603 bs=512 count=1 dd: writing `/dev/sda': Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 27.48 s, 0.0 kB/s The log snippet below was produced as that command terminated (there was nothing produced while it ran). I don't see anything about a write error, just a read error? Dave Sep 28 15:34:12 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 28 15:34:12 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Sep 28 15:34:12 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:a0:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Sep 28 15:34:12 suse1 kernel: res 51/40:05:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error) Sep 28 15:34:12 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Sep 28 15:34:12 suse1 kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 28 15:34:16 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 28 15:34:16 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Sep 28 15:34:16 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:a0:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Sep 28 15:34:16 suse1 kernel: res 51/40:05:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error) Sep 28 15:34:16 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Sep 28 15:34:16 suse1 kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 28 15:34:21 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 28 15:34:21 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Sep 28 15:34:21 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:a0:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Sep 28 15:34:21 suse1 kernel: res 51/40:05:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error) Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:a0:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: res 51/40:05:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error) Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:a0:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: res 51/40:05:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error) Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x25 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:a0:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: res 51/40:05:a3:c0:73/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error) Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor] Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: 03 73 c0 a3 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 57917603 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: ata3: EH complete Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB) Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 156301488 512-byte hardware sectors (80026 MB) Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Sep 28 15:34:35 suse1 kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org