[NTLUG:Discuss] Drive becoming read-only after 40 minutes?!?

[Wayne Walker]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 04:10:23PM -0500, Steve Baker wrote:
> Daniel Hauck wrote:
> > The only time I have seen drives go read-only is when errors are 
> > detected on the drive. Check your dmesg and/or /var/log/messages file
> >   
> 
> Well, I did look - but I was running:
> 
> while 1
> sleep 10
> date >> ~/file
> sync
> end
edit /etc/syslog.conf and add

*.*		/dev/tty12

Restart syslog.  Pres Alt-F12, watch the system messages ...
May see stuff that couldn't be written to the read only disk.

Also try:

while true
sleep 10
date
hdparm /dev/sda | grep readonly
done

-- 

Wayne Walker

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