On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

I further suspect the error from logwatch is an event in history that has
long since been resolved and it just continues to report it as a recent
event.

Rodney,

I thought that was the case but not sufficiently knowledgeable to know for
sure. Also, the kernel issues a warning, not an error, so the criticality is
lower.

This many not be looking at exactly what you need, better:
dmesg | grep 'sd[a-z]'

# dmesg | grep sd[a-z]
[    4.299451] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/466 
GiB)
[    4.319311] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    4.328956] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    4.328969] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, 
doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    4.409795]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 >
[    4.420117] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[    6.737025] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 
subsystem
[    6.747125] EXT4-fs (sda1): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
[    6.756263] EXT4-fs (sda1): write access will be enabled during recovery
[    6.896368] EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete
[    6.928730] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: 
(null)
[ 11.840042] Adding 15623208k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:15623208k [ 12.553724] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[   43.351603] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 
subsystem
[   43.376859] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: 
(null)
[   43.418966] EXT4-fs (sda5): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 
subsystem
[   43.464852] EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: 
(null)
[   43.483693] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 
subsystem
[   43.535564] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: 
(null)
[   43.573277] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 
subsystem
[   43.625133] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: 
(null)
[   43.639373] EXT4-fs (sda8): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 
subsystem
[   43.713759] EXT4-fs (sda8): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: 
(null)
[   43.755338] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 
subsystem
[   43.797319] EXT4-fs (sda9): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: 
(null)

This with the external drive off (it's normal state during the day).

Thanks,

Rich
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