Re: [Plug] hardware problems.

[Bob Suchowierski <rsuchowi@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu>]

1. IDE or SCSI drives?
2. Integrated controller or Plug in card?

I have had some really screwy errors with hard drives, (not limited to red
hat) First, there could be a controller problem, the cables can be bad, if
it's a plugin card, it may be loose, I have seen some really goofy things when
using non intel chipsets with cyrix chips, I have seen cheap cases where the
even though the card appears to be well seated, the case is askew which causes
bad connection between a plug in card and the motherboard, does it seem to get
really goofy when the machine is hot as opposed to being turned off and left
to cool down? Are you overclocking the CPU? If so, this may have something to
do with it, etc, etc, etc.  Bottom line, yank the drives out of the machine
and test them in another box.  If they work, then the motherboard can be on
its way out or the controller may be on its way out, etc, etc, etc.

Michelle Weber wrote:

> Hi, I have a server which recently kept freezing for nothing which seemed
> hardware related, I checked the logs, and then noticed all these errors
> spewed out to the console about one of the drives. After being rebooted so
> many times without the drive being unmounted, I ran an fsck which started
> creeping above 1 hour (on a 1 gig drive!) so I decided to just take it out
> of its misery, and reformat, reinstall Redhat.  I couldn't even format the
> poor thing, it kept giving errors, so I just took it out, and installed a
> clean version of 6.1.  The box has been up since then, but today the other
> drive, /home, which I didn't format, kept from the old install of 6.0,
> started spewing out these goofy errors too! So then I did a shutdown, did
> a warm boot, got a Hard disk failure from the bios! Did a cold boot, it
> seemed to be ok, but I noticed the drive wasn't cleanly unmounted, and
> redhat ran fsck by itself, and it seems to be acting normal now.
> What could be the cause of this? This drive is 10 gigs, and I'm not about
> to through it away as if it was 1 gig.
>
> --
> Michelle Weber
> umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
>
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