Re: ata errors -> read-only root partition. Hardware issue?

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

jerome lacoste wrote:
> ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata3: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
> ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata3: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
> ata3: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> ata3: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }
> SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
> sda: Current: sense key: Medium Error
>     Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 67801511

That sounds an awful lot like a failing hard drive.

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