Re: Bad disks or bug ?

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Ing. Gianluca Alberici wrote:
> Prarit,
> 
> I run 2.4.27 on all my machines.
> 
> Never had problems but this (if we want to say its not a disk problem)
> 
> I have seen on mailing lists many people having this very problem, 
> always on hdb, with a lot of different kernel and machines.
> 
> I have basically two kind of cabinets:
> 
> - The 'Antec style' tower
> - Racmount cases
> 
> Everything well cooled...i am sure bout that.
> 
> Always ASUS A7V, Athlon XP 2xxx+, NEVER OVERCLOCKED, of course...
> 
> Disks are mainly Maxtor, or IBM
> 
> Basically i was wondering whether to swap disks on a server just to try....
> 
> ....These are the things that rave me mad !

You might see if you can swap positions in the case first, then I guess 
you would have nothing to try but actually flipping master with slave 
(and contents as well, good fun).

Just wondering, where is your swap? Your Journal? Do you have a small 
fast drive you could use for swap and external journal? I checked all 
the machines which have a similar configuration, and I don't see any 
pattern, although all the machines with really high i/o load are using SCSI.

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