[linux-lvm] I/O error: dev 08:11, sector 0

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

Allan,

as Patrick pointed out, I got the base wrong.

Are you sure that the drive is dying? 

You might have one of those nasty SCSI cable length/termination/power problems
causing this. Happens quite often after a configuration change on a SCSI bus.

Heinz

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:10:14AM -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote:
> On 2001-07-19 11:13:51, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote:
> 
> > 08:11 (/dev/sda11) shows that I/O error, you use /dev/sdb, which is 08:16
> > for your VG -> no problem for LVM.
> > If there's a file system on /dev/sda11 *and* just the first sector is not
> > accessable, you can still happily access the filesystem, because it doesn't use
> > that sector at all.
> > But you should check and probably replace your sda drive to avoid
> > trouble in the future.
> 
> Hmm... I do not have a /dev/sda11, only sda1 & sda2 (root and swap
> respectively).  However, I was aware that my sdc drive was dying
> (the drive was scsi id 8 / sdb when this was logged):
> 
> Jul 14 09:33:58 digit-safe kernel: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 8, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 09 c9 48 00 00 18 00 
> Jul 14 09:33:58 digit-safe kernel: Info fld=0x9c952, Current sd08:12: sense key Medium Error
> Jul 14 09:33:58 digit-safe kernel: Additional sense indicates Data synchronization mark error
> Jul 14 09:33:58 digit-safe kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:12, sector 577872
> 
> 
> /Allan
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