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

[Wayne Walker]

Man I've got no idea.  I'd put all the info into a web page
(rafb.net/paste) and ask on IRC, probably in the #kernel channel.
Someone should at least tell you how to up the log level of the driver.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:36:48PM -0500, Steve Baker wrote:
> Wayne Walker wrote:
> >edit /etc/syslog.conf and add
> >
> >*.*		/dev/tty12
> >
> >Restart syslog.  Pres Alt-F12, watch the system messages ...
> >  
> Nothing - blank screen.
> >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
> >  
> hdparm reports
> 
> /dev/sda:
> HDIO_GET_32BIT failed: Invalid argument
> HDIO_GET_UNMASKINTR failed: Invalid argument
> HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Invalid argument
> HDIO_GET_KEEPSETTINGS failed: Invalid argument
> readonly     =  0 (off)
> readahead    = 256 (on)
> geometry     = 38913/255/63, sectors = 625142448, start = 0
> 
> ...both before AND after the problem.

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Wayne Walker

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