WARNING: Your hard drive is failing

[Andre Robatino]

Mateusz Marzantowicz <mmarzantowicz <at> osdf.com.pl> writes:

> WARNING: Your hard drive is failing
> Device: /dev/sdd [USB JMicron], unable to open device
> 
> I see this message on all my terminals and system logs. Actually nothing
> is failing, I've disconnected USB hard drive (using "eject" button in
> GNOME shell), then disconnected drive from cable. It looks like some
> part of Fedora 19 is not noticing drive removal. Can I fix it somehow?

I saw this once, with a portable hard drive. It happened when I had the
drive plugged in while booting, and unplugged it later. It didn't realize
that it was okay for the drive to be unplugged afterwards. I didn't check if
there is an existing bug report.