Dying disk or harmless message?

[Thomas Köllmann <koellmann@gmx.net>]

Hi, everybody!

This is probably not the most appropriate place to ask but since it's
a Ultra2 running Sarge on Linux 2.4.27-2-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Mon Feb 14
16:15:41 PST 2005 sparc64 GNU/Linux ...

I got this kernel message today:

Mar  9 08:08:38 [kernel] SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
return code = 28000000
Mar  9 08:08:38 [kernel]  I/O error: dev 08:04, sector 8912936

This has happened once before:

Feb 15 13:03:14 [kernel] SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
return code = 28000000
Feb 15 13:03:14 [kernel]  I/O error: dev 08:04, sector 262864

I've googled around but I still don't know whether this means the disk
is dying or it's a temporary error I can safely ignore. The machine
works nicely otherwise.

The disk is a
  Vendor: IBM       Model: DPSS-336950M      Rev: S96H
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
esp0: target 0 [period 100ns offset 15 20.00MHz FAST-WIDE SCSI-II]
SCSI device sda: 72170880 512-byte hdwr sectors (36951 MB)

Thanks for any advice!
- Thomas


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