On Thursday 24 August 2006 11:08, Daniel Tryba wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:16:30PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > [snip] > > > Any guess at what that means? I naively understand it was failure by the > > OS, not failure of hardware. > > I had the same errors on a Tyan K8SSA and first thought it was a > software/kernel problem with the sata controller/driver. But then one > disk suddenly died (no problems where found til the failure (smartctl)) > and got replaced by a new one. The machine has been running flawless > since. > > It might be a coincidence, but just to show you you might have a > hardware problem.
My motherboard is Tyan K8WE S2895 with a couple of dualopteron, recently assembled. The HD are 300GB, cheap type (unfortunate choice). Could you please tell me if smartmontools and smartd are in conflict with one another? I have both /etc/smartd.conf and /etc/default/smartmontools SMART id disabled, therefore smartctl does not work, asking to activate SMART. I see in /etc/dafult/smartmontools that activation of the latter is undesirable if control is through smartd. I would be much indebted for guidance as to setting smartmontools or/and smartd. Kernel is Linux deb64 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8-smp Mon Mar 20 11:41:50 UTC 2006 I did not manage to get a 16 or 17 because the machine is connected to internet only during update/upgrade from debian site. Not using X system, although it is installed and working. I use for internet a i386 pc. As to the cables, well let me first manage the disk tools The machine is now carrying out a many-days computation but it can be killed and restarted from the last data. Thanks for answering. Cheers francesco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]