Why am I seeing "SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000" in /var/log/messages

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Issue

  • System seeing failure:
Aug 26 14:15:30 hostname kernel: sd 0:0:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000
Aug 26 14:15:30 hostname kernel: Result: hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
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Aug 26 14:15:30 hostname kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-6): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
Aug 26 14:15:30 hostname kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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