From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pau Montero Pares Subject: Re: Drive Ready seek errors Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:59:33 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40BEF685.6090104@imente.com> References: <40BEB0E7.306@hosttuls.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig202F92601A4CC18A144EEFC3" Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: To: Cc: Linux Admin This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig202F92601A4CC18A144EEFC3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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? -- Pau Montero Pares --------------enig202F92601A4CC18A144EEFC3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAvvaF/6p7/QUFTpkRAnolAKCE2PjCr06fjOXKcB7StoiMG5T18wCfV2sf pJ+7lXFgDsGY3ppYtSNgF84= =qsmI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig202F92601A4CC18A144EEFC3--