failing drives or false positives

[Brian West]

On 11/22/2012 04:29 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 11/22/2012 03:04 PM, Brian West wrote:
>> On 11/22/2012 12:58 PM, JD wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Brian West <bionicfreeze at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:bionicfreeze at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi everyone
>>>
>>>     yesterday i began receiving messages from one  of my drives in my
>>>     hard drive dock that it could be failing.  so i tested my
>>>     notebooks drive and the docked drive in question both said tests
>>>     completed without error both short and extended tests were
>>>     performed is my drive really failing or is this a false positive.
>>>      logs for each drive are below what really gets me is both of the
>>>     drives give the exact same output for the most part should i be
>>>     concerned?  Thanks in advance for your time.
>>>
>>>     Brian West
>>>
>>>
>>> You did not append the error messages you say you are getting.
>>> I too am having drive errors in the system log.
>>> Interested in your log or error messages in /var/log/messages.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> where do i locate the errors?
>>
>>
>
> Didn't you say in your original post that, "yesterday i began 
> receiving messages from one  of my drives in my hard drive dock that 
> it could be failing."?  What are those messages?
device sdb could be failing i/o error comes up as a broadcast message