[colug-432] Failing Hard Drive Mystery

[Joshua Kramer]

I also run CentOS 7, and I do get that same message when I am swapping
around various USB hard drives.  It usually occurs when I use a USB3
capable enclosure on a USB2 port.  I've seen this both on my Dell Latitude
and Intel server board.  I got this quite a bit when I upgraded to two 4tb
drives in my server and was copying stuff from the old 1tb drive that I had
put in the USB3 enclosure.  I did not see any actual data errors.

On May 18, 2017 10:05 PM, "Joseph Beard" <joseph at josephbeard.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> My ThinkPad has recently started exhibiting some odd behaviour that
> doesn't make sense to me. Occasionally, and seemingly at random, this
> message will pop up in my terminal:
>
> WARNING: Your hard drive is failing
>> Device: /dev/sdc [SAT], unable to open device
>>
>
> Normally, I'd take a message like this to mean just that: that my hard
> drive is failing. But here's the weird thing: there is no `/dev/sdc` in
> this box. I have `/dev/sda` (a Seagate SSHD), and `/dev/sdb` (an MSATA
> SSD). I am _occasionally_ connected to a USB HDD, which I believe shows up
> as `sdc`, but these messages appear when I am not connected and haven't
> been connected for some time (sometimes hours). I do not have any
> filesystems mounted on the external when I disconnect.
>
> Just for sanity's sake, I've used `smartctl` to test all three devices and
> have had no errors reported. I feel I can safely ignore this, because it
> seems crazy, but I'd
> really feel much better knowing why it's happening.
>
> I'm running CentOS 7. Any ideas?
>
>
> Joe
> --
> Joseph Beard
> joseph at josephbeard.net
>
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