Re: Drive Ready seek errors

["Miguel González Castaños" <mgc@tid.es>]

Brandon Evans escribió:

>
> 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?
>
>
the best thing is to follow the following approach:

+ to download a disk utility from the manufacturer to check the
integrity at low level of your hard disk drive.
+ after discarding this possibility, go ahead with fsck checks on your
hard disk drives (linux checks).
+ if both of these checks are negative (no problem at all), then you
should start checking something with your configuration of your RAID
controller.

Anyway, googling a little bit about your Hard disk drive model and RAID
controller could give you a few clues if there have been problems with
that configuration in the past...

BR,

Miguel



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