Fedora 16 crapware: filesystem suddenly and randomly becomes read-only

Microsoft Lie: Disk Failure Means Fedora Is "Crapware"

On Dec 17, 4:43 pm, DFS wrote:

"I have been experiencing a strange issue with a brand new PC on which
I'm running Fedora 16 x64. After using the system for a while, my
secondary HDD (unto which my /home partition is located) suddenly
becomes read-only! I can hear a strange noise coming from the drive when
this happens. After restarting the system, the drive seems to be OK for
a while and then, all of a sudden, it fails again. The HDD is a
ST1000DM003 connected to a Marvell 88SE9128 SATA controller."

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t'3573

As the next forum poster says, "This looks like hardware. Ext4
will typically remount read-only as a safety feature when errors
occur."

The "strange noise" that the complainant reports is probably the
drive recalibrating -- moving the head carriage to the end of
its travel and hitting a mechanical stop, so the servo knows
exactly where the heads are. This generally makes a clicking
sound. I had it with a couple of new Seagate drives a year or
two ago, which is why I took them back and got Western Digital
Caviar Black drives instead -- much better.

One of them pathetically tries to blame the hardware (Marvell
controller), but we all know better.

Microsoft Corporation, writing as "DFS", always tries to blame
Linux, but we know better:

http://cosmicpenguin.com/linux/MICR...LINUX.html