If you want you can post the output from 'sudo smartctl -x /dev/sda' which will contain more information... but this is in some sense superfluous. The problem is very clearly a bad drive, the drive explicitly report to libata a write error, and included the sector LBA affected, and only the drive firmware would know that. It's not likely a cable problem or something like. And that the write error is reported at all means it's persistent, not transient. Chris Murphy
