Re: What Utilities to check a Hard Disc?
The HDD tools I use are: * smartmontools smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda # show info for SATA disk smartctl -a /dev/hda# show info for PATA disk smartctl -t long /dev/hda # start long test for PATA disk * hddtemp hddtemp /dev/sda# check temperature for SATA disk * hdparm hdparm -I /dev/hda # show info about acoustics mgmt and more * e2fsprogs badblocks -w /dev/hda # do an DESTRUCTIVE write test on PATA disk Testing SCSI disks can be don with Seagate Seatools Enterprise for Linux. (32-bit only?) Cheers, Daniel On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 01:20 +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering what utilities I can use to check the health of my hard > discs. On my mac powerbook I can check the S.M.A.R.T. status. A few > months the powerbook indicated the drive was about the fail. I backed > everythign up and sure enough it DID fail shortly aftewards. I just > had some strange messages on the console. I did an update and rebooted > to find messages like: >"driveready seekcomplete error" > > which is worrying. Debian wouldn't start up infact. I shutdown and > restarted in another partition (Ubuntu 32) which did start up OK. I > tried Debian again and it failed to boot. Tried Ubuntu and it failed. > (Getting quite worried here.) Tried the 3rd partition (windows) and it > did boot. After shutting down, Debian booted with no problem. Now I am > wondering if there is a serious underlying problem, but don't know > what utilities I can use to assess the situation. > > Any advice about utilities to use would be much appreciated. > > Craig Hagerman > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What Utilities to check a Hard Disc?
I saw there might be a package for that: apt-cache show smartmontools I haven't however looked at it, so I do not how it works... Bye, Halva Craig Hagerman wrote: > Hi, > > I am wondering what utilities I can use to check the health of my hard > discs. On my mac powerbook I can check the S.M.A.R.T. status. A few > months the powerbook indicated the drive was about the fail. I backed > everythign up and sure enough it DID fail shortly aftewards. I just > had some strange messages on the console. I did an update and rebooted > to find messages like: > "driveready seekcomplete error" > > which is worrying. Debian wouldn't start up infact. I shutdown and > restarted in another partition (Ubuntu 32) which did start up OK. I > tried Debian again and it failed to boot. Tried Ubuntu and it failed. > (Getting quite worried here.) Tried the 3rd partition (windows) and it > did boot. After shutting down, Debian booted with no problem. Now I am > wondering if there is a serious underlying problem, but don't know > what utilities I can use to assess the situation. > > Any advice about utilities to use would be much appreciated. > > Craig Hagerman > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What Utilities to check a Hard Disc?
Hi, I am wondering what utilities I can use to check the health of my hard discs. On my mac powerbook I can check the S.M.A.R.T. status. A few months the powerbook indicated the drive was about the fail. I backed everythign up and sure enough it DID fail shortly aftewards. I just had some strange messages on the console. I did an update and rebooted to find messages like: "driveready seekcomplete error" which is worrying. Debian wouldn't start up infact. I shutdown and restarted in another partition (Ubuntu 32) which did start up OK. I tried Debian again and it failed to boot. Tried Ubuntu and it failed. (Getting quite worried here.) Tried the 3rd partition (windows) and it did boot. After shutting down, Debian booted with no problem. Now I am wondering if there is a serious underlying problem, but don't know what utilities I can use to assess the situation. Any advice about utilities to use would be much appreciated. Craig Hagerman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: raid1 reconstruction
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 12:36:30PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > raid 1 reconstruction, sda, sda mdadm > > It was overnight and I did not took notice,I deciding to remedy in the > morning. Actually, in the morning, the screen was again at mpqc, regularly > computing. > > Cheers > francesco pietra > Hello Francesco, a:~$ cat /etc/cron.d/mdadm # # cron.d/mdadm -- schedules periodic parity checks of RAID devices # # Copyright © 2006 martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # distributed under the terms of the Artistic Licence. # # by default, run at 01:06 on the first Sunday of each month. 6 1 1-7 * 7 root [ -x /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray ] && /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray --cron --all --quiet --- end of output --- Maybe the message was due to this periodic check. Regards Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
raid1 reconstruction
Not sure if it has to be mentioned in connection with Debian amd64 etch (linux raid1) dual opterons 8GB ram: during mpqc computations (-messagegr, i.e. heavy load on memory), no gui, no X system, the screen showed: raid 1 reconstruction, sda, sda mdadm It was overnight and I did not took notice,I deciding to remedy in the morning. Actually, in the morning, the screen was again at mpqc, regularly computing. $df -h #fdisk /dev/sda (or sdb) did not show anything wrong. Cheers francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Right kernel for AMD Athlon64-3000+
Sam Varghese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:02:32PM +1000 Dean Hamstead said: On Sun, August 6, 2006 1:27 pm, Sam Varghese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been running an AMD64-3000+ with a generic kernel for the last six months: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux zizyphus 2.6.16-2-amd64-generic #1 Sun Jul 16 01:12:23 CEST 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux Today I was just wondering if the amd64-k8 kernel wouldn't be more suited for this processor. K8 is the correct kernel for AMD cpus Dean Is the changeover as simple as installing the following: linux-image-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8 linux-headers-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8 and then updating grub? No. Grub updates itself Whenever a new linux-image is installed or removed. Skip the last step. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Right kernel for AMD Athlon64-3000+
Sam Varghese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:02:32PM +1000 Dean Hamstead said: On Sun, August 6, 2006 1:27 pm, Sam Varghese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been running an AMD64-3000+ with a generic kernel for the last six months: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux zizyphus 2.6.16-2-amd64-generic #1 Sun Jul 16 01:12:23 CEST 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux Today I was just wondering if the amd64-k8 kernel wouldn't be more suited for this processor. K8 is the correct kernel for AMD cpus Dean Is the changeover as simple as installing the following: linux-image-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8 linux-headers-2.6.16-2-amd64-k8 and then updating grub? Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. My PGP key: http://www.gnubies.com/encryption/sign.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE1W07ZyXhknb+33gRAv5jAJ9PG7s5nMgMjcukLn0DWQzhNqic+QCgiGeB qsx2/MalomrPMsQG3g6jjRU= =SQc1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Yes, works like a charme. thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
