restart the system in single user mode, make sure the volume is mounted as
read only and check it with fdisk.
fdisk has flags that will do a badblocks scan.
smart is predictive and doesn't catch all errors its also not compatible
with all disks and controllers especially raid capable controllers.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:24 PM Subscribe Scientific-Linux-Users Rm <
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> hi,
> I am running SL7.4 on Xeon E5 machine.
>
> # uname -a
> Linux rc-dellt430 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 25 14:32:52
> CDT 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Every few minutes (i think whenver smart runs) I get this in
> /var/log/messages:
>
> Oct 16 10:22:25 rc-dellt430 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 FAILED Result:
> hostbyte=DID_BAD_TARGET driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
> Oct 16 10:22:25 rc-dellt430 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 CDB: ATA
> command pass through(16) 85 06 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e5 00
> Oct 16 10:22:25 rc-dellt430 udisksd[14184]: Error performing housekeeping
> for drive /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/TOSHIBA_MG03ACA100_46SIKCQFF:
> Error updating SMART data: sk_disk_check_sleep_mode: Input/output error
> (udisks-error-quark, 0)
>
>
> The "smartctl -A /dev/sda" isn't saying any errors with the disk. So what
> could be the issue. Is the disk really failing or something else is the
> issue ?
>