Hi, Peter, On 12/17/05, Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-Dec-17 04:06:36 +0800, Xin LI wrote: > >No, it's sometimes other, and is quite infrequent. On the other hand, > >neither SMART nor error has reported some incident, so I was stuck > >when looking on hardware issues, as the message does not indicate > >which disk(s) may have problem... > > A hardware error should have been reported as such. But if you > suspect a disk problem, try dd'ing the swap partition (or the whole > disk) to /dev/null. If you can read the whole partition, you can > probably write to it. (Or you could dd /dev/zero to the partitions > whilst swap is not attached - eg in single user after boot). If you > suspect retries are a problem, monitor the I/O rate with iostat or > systat and see if it suddenly drops.
Actually I already tried to dd with no luck... I suspect that the cable may have some problems, though, as a hard disk is working at half speed of the other one (say, it's not a sudden drop)... But will this cause the warning? Cheers, -- Xin LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.delphij.net
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