[CentOS] USB external HDD error messages
partha chowdhury
kira.laucas at gmail.com
Sun Sep 28 22:00:16 UTC 2008
Guest3731 wrote:
> Hi - relatively inexperienced user here. I installed CentOS 5.2
> yesterday (http install via a mirror, worked brilliantly), as well as a
> new Seagate 1Tb USB external HDD (from the new Xtreme line), for
> backup/media storage.
> Using fdisk I put two primary partitions on the Seagate, /dev/sde1 and
> /dev/sde2 (roughly half the drive each). Then I used mkfs.ext3 on both
> to create ext3 filesystems on those partitions. My fstab entries look
> like so:
>
> /dev/sde1 /mnt/seagate1 ext3 rw,user,noexec 0 0
> /dev/sde2 /mnt/seagate2 ext3 rw,user,noexec 0 0
>
> I copied some data onto /dev/sde1 and went to bed. This morning, I
> found a clump of kernel messages on the console (lightly edited from
> /var/log/messages):
>
> kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 492896319
> kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 61612032
> kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sde1): ext3_readdir: directory #30801921
> contains a hole at offset 0
> kernel: Aborting journal on device sde1.
> kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 12655
> kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 1574
> kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sde1
> kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: Device not ready: <6>: Current: sense key: Not Ready
> kernel: Add. Sense: Logical unit not ready, initializing command
> required
> kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 63
> kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 0
> kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sde1
> kernel: ext3_abort called.
> kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sde1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected
> aborted journal
> kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only
>
> I can guess that I/O means Input/Output, but other than that I'm
> flummoxed. My fear is that the Seagate is defective. Can someone point
> me in a good direction? Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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if you take it out and put it back again is it automatically mounted and
can kernel see it when you do fdisk -l ?
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