Hi All,

This is an external HDD(500 GB) Seagate(Freeagent go), OS is RHEL 5.3.
This external HDD has two primary partitions:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107860992 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 30401 244196001 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 30402 60801 244188000 83 Linux


Now everytime I'm mounting the hard disk, after certain period of inactivity, its getting unmounted and then remounted in 'Read only' mode. Say, 1 or 2 minutes after mounting in read-write mode, whenever I'm trying to copy some files to HDD, its giving the following error:

[root@demo ~]# tar -zcvf /webb1/test.txt test_bkp/
tar: /webb1/test.txt: Cannot open: Read-only file system
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
test_bkp/
test_bkp/test12009-12-08
test_bkp/stopERP
test_bkp/test3
test_bkp/startERP
test_bkp/test_bkp.log


Following is an excerpt of the /var/log/messages(when files are being copied to the external HDD):


Dec 11 11:14:40 demo kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Device not ready: <6>: Current: sense k
ey: Not Ready
Dec 11 11:14:40 demo kernel: Add. Sense: Logical unit not ready, initializin
g command required
Dec 11 11:14:40 demo kernel:
Dec 11 11:14:40 demo kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 1052751
Dec 11 11:14:40 demo kernel: printk: 110 messages suppressed.
Dec 11 11:14:40 demo kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 1315
86
Dec 11 11:14:40 demo kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda1
Dec 11 11:14:40 demo kernel: Aborting journal on device sda1.
Dec 11 11:15:07 demo kernel: ext3_abort called.
Dec 11 11:15:07 demo kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_journal_start_sb:
Detected aborted journal
Dec 11 11:15:07 demo kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only
Dec 11 11:21:14 demo kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: Device not ready: <6>: Current: sense k
ey: Not Ready
Dec 11 11:21:14 demo kernel: Add. Sense: Logical unit not ready, initializin
g command required
Dec 11 11:21:14 demo kernel:
Dec 11 11:21:14 demo kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 489969049
Dec 11 11:21:14 demo kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 1971
23
Dec 11 11:21:14 demo kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sda2
Dec 11 11:21:14 demo kernel: Aborting journal on device sda2.
Dec 11 11:21:42 demo kernel: ext3_abort called.
Dec 11 11:21:42 demo kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_journal_start_sb:
Detected aborted journal
Dec 11 11:21:42 demo kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only

Sometimes its also throwing the following error when giving 'ls -l' command:

# ls -l
ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
total 0

This is a serious issue.....if anyone can highlight as to where the problem lies......with the HDD or with the Kernel.......a suggestion is highly appreciable.

Thanks and Regards,
Kosys

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