On 11/20/10 4:12 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>
> So it appears the onboard IDE controller is working OK, and
> the problem appears to be from the IDE ribbon cable, to one
> of the HDD caddies.
>
> Any suggs please?
Errr, if you have established that you have a bad cable, isn't the obvious
solution t
Well I'm geting there slowly but surely.
This home-built server machine is using hard drive caddies.
I've taken my working backup drive from the caddy (secondary
master), and replaced it with a small GB test drive.
The problem was originally with the drive connected to the
onboard IDE primary
>From: Keith Roberts
>On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> Might want to check the power supply as well. Bad/flakey
>> power can indeed case damage to the drive surface; been
>> there, done that, have two Maxtor 250GB drives with
>> scribbled servo data to prove it.
>OK.
> I'm running t
At Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:13:03 + (GMT) CentOS mailing list
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> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> > To: CentOS mailing list
> > From: Lamar Owen
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
> >
> > On Wednesday, November 03, 2010 02
On 11/3/2010 4:18 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
> I might shell out some dosh for a copy if it can
> non-destructably repair bad sectors.
Try fsck -cc first. (Or badblocks -n) These do part of what SR does
already, so if they work, that's all you need. Step up only when you
need something that tri
On 11/03/2010 03:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> Might want to check the power supply as well. Bad/flakey
>> power can indeed case damage to the drive surface; been
>> there, done that, have two Maxtor 250GB drives with
>> scribbled servo data to prove it.
>
On 11/03/10 3:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
> I'm running the server from an APC UPS Back-UPS 650, so
> there should not be any glitches in the power supply, should
> there?
thats a simple standby kind of UPS, acts like a 'surge protector' when
the AC is on, and only switches to the battery powere
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Warren Young wrote:
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> From: Warren Young
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
>
> On 11/3/2010 8:32 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>
>> So to prepare the disk for returning under warranty, I used
>> another HD
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Lamar Owen wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list
> From: Lamar Owen
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
>
> On Wednesday, November 03, 2010 02:51:02 pm RedShift wrote:
>> On 11/03/10 17:01, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>> Could a bad controll
On Wednesday, November 03, 2010 02:51:02 pm RedShift wrote:
> On 11/03/10 17:01, Keith Roberts wrote:
> > Could a bad controller or bad RAM cause Hard Drive sector
> > errors?
> >
>
> Neither bad RAM or a bad controllor can physically damage a hard drive. A bad
> controller will not cause realloc
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, RedShift wrote:
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> From: RedShift
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
>
> On 11/03/10 17:01, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>
>> There were no sectors remapped, which is odd as there were
>> bad sectors originally o
On 11/03/10 17:01, Keith Roberts wrote:
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> There were no sectors remapped, which is odd as there were
> bad sectors originally on the drive. I ran MemTest86+ out of
> curiousity, and there are 5120 Errors, some at 0.4MB& 0.5
> MB.
>
You should fix that first.
> The BIOS has been playing up, not
On 11/3/2010 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Yeah, but I have problems with smartmon:
More likely, problems with SMART. S.M.A.R.T. is D.U.M.B. :)
It's better than nothing, but sometimes not by a whole lot.
> one server that's got two bad sectors, which SMART reports. I've followed
> the ins
Warren Young wrote:
> On 11/3/2010 8:32 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>
>> So to prepare the disk for returning under warranty, I used
>> another HDD utility to clean the disk again
>
> ...
>
>> So I ran an Advanced r/w scan again with Hitachi DFT, and
>> the result was OK.
>
> A complete disk wipe bri
On 11/3/2010 8:32 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>
> So to prepare the disk for returning under warranty, I used
> another HDD utility to clean the disk again
...
> So I ran an Advanced r/w scan again with Hitachi DFT, and
> the result was OK.
A complete disk wipe brings bad sectors to the drive's att
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Todd Denniston wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list
> From: Todd Denniston
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
>
> Keith Roberts wrote, On 11/03/2010 10:32 AM:
>> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Keith Roberts wrote:
>>
>
>> There were about
Keith Roberts wrote, On 11/03/2010 10:32 AM:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Keith Roberts wrote:
>
> There were about 79 Seek errors in the SMART logs of the
> HDD.
>
> vivard did not show any errors when doing a full disk erase.
>
> So I ran an Advanced r/w scan again with Hitachi DFT, and
> the re
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Keith Roberts wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list
> From: Keith Roberts
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
>
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, William Warren wrote:
>
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> From: William Warren
>> Subject: Re: [Cent
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, William Warren wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list
> From: William Warren
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
>
> On 10/31/2010 3:27 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
>> Hi All.
>>
>> Yesterday I was installing Centos 5.5 to my web server, a
On 10/31/2010 3:27 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> Yesterday I was installing Centos 5.5 to my web server, and
> it looks like the main hard drive has gone AWOL.
>
> Fedora 12 put the file system into r/o mode.
>
> The drive is an Hitachi, still under warranty.
>
> There are bad sectors on i
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