This has begun to annoy me...

[Mel]

On Friday 01 February 2008 20:40:32 Kurt Buff wrote:
> I've been getting this in my daily security email from one of my boxes
> for quite a while, and have been ignoring it, because of workload.
>
> However, it's finally annoyed me enough to pursue it.
>
> What would the significance of the following section be?
>
> zsquid.mycompany.com kernel log messages:
> +++ /tmp/security.4blejPLW	Fri Feb  1 03:02:08 2008
> +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=4662143
> +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=113995359
> +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=112970015
> +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=4668319
> +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=4849151
> +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=115527359
> +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=113714335
> +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=113715199
> +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=4570911
> +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=42958719
> +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=113343327
> +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=117315327
>
> It looks like disk write errors to me, but I'm not sure.
>

Disk errors (as in bad sectors) or bad cable.
-- 
Mel