file system, kernel or hardware raid failure?

[Christian Kujau]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Vegard Svanberg wrote:
> [2834866.071770] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
> [2834866.071778] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] 
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Any ideas? Fsck will fix the errors, but report short reads while

No, you don't want to run fsck on a faulty device, it'll probably make 
things even worse. If the data is valuable, make two copies of it 
(with dd(1) or dd_rescue), then run fsck on one of these.

Christian.
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