From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Miguel_Gonz=E1lez_Casta=F1os?= Subject: Re: Drive Ready seek errors Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 15:04:42 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40BF21EA.7080700@tid.es> References: <40BEB0E7.306@hosttuls.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-reply-to: <40BEB0E7.306@hosttuls.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Brandon Evans escribi=F3: > > Lately, a lot of my Linux boxes have had hard drive failures. There=20 > are about 15 servers running raid 1 on Red hat 7.3. Does anyone have= =20 > any suggestions, maybe some good doc's, on hard drive troubleshooting= =20 > / tuning? Some of the failed hard drives are only a couple months=20 > old, and have already been replaced twice, so I suspect a faulty ide=20 > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html