Harddrive beginning to expire?

[doug at polands.org]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:35:34PM +0530, Siddhartha Jain wrote:
> doug at polands.org wrote:
> > 
> > I'm seeing this entry in my /var/log/messages approx. every three hours:
> >
> > Aug 17 06:09:07 judea /kernel: (da5:ahc0:0:5:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 1  f9 a 0
> > Aug 17 06:09:07 judea /kernel: (da5:ahc0:0:5:0): RECOVERED ERROR asc:5d,0
> > Aug 17 06:09:07 judea /kernel: (da5:ahc0:0:5:0): Failure prediction threshold exceeded field replaceable unit: 1
> > Aug 17 09:28:52 judea /kernel: (da5:ahc0:0:5:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 1 f9 a 0
> > Aug 17 09:28:52 judea /kernel: (da5:ahc0:0:5:0): RECOVERED ERROR asc:5d,0
> > Aug 17 09:28:52 judea /kernel: (da5:ahc0:0:5:0): Failure prediction threshold exceeded field replaceable unit: 1
> > 
> > This 4.9-STABLE box is running 7 SCSI drives in a vinum stripped array.
> > Question, is this the beginning of the end for drive da5?
> >
> > 
> If the setup has been working error free ealier and the errors have
> started coming up recently then it looks like you have a disk that needs
> replacement.
> 
This system has been running since April 14, 2001 with one glitch in May
2004.  I'd have to dig up the logs to see what that was.  I started
getting these messages on August 10th.

-- 
Regards,
Doug