Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Brandon Evans wrote:
> 
> 
>>Lately, a lot of my Linux boxes have had hard drive failures.  There are 
>>about 15 servers running raid 1 on Red hat 7.3.  Does anyone have any 
>>suggestions, maybe some good doc's, on hard drive troubleshooting / 
>>tuning?  Some of the failed hard drives are only a couple months old, 
>>and have already been replaced twice, so I suspect a faulty ide 
>>controller.   What is a good IDE controller card to buy for Linux?
> 
> 
> I can't answer the question about the controller cards, but have you 
> considered using smartd?  It should give you some warning that your drives 
> are on the way out.   In addition, if this is happening across several 
> boxes, it is possible that kernel configuration is a problem.  How do 
> these drives fail?  What kinds of errors do you get?

	Could it be a power suply problem affecting several machines?

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Pau Montero Pares