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On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 07:46 +0100, Thierry Sayegh De Bellis wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Roger wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Aug 6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: ata1: status=0x51 { DriveReady </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> SeekComplete Error }</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Aug 6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: ata1: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Aug 6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> 0x8000002</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Aug 6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: sda: Current: sense key: Medium Error</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Aug 6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: Additional sense: Unrecovered read </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> error - auto reallocate failed</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Aug 6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: Info fld=0x713315d</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Aug 6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> sector 118698333</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Aug 6 16:59:16 asterix kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-0): </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=14811137, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> block=14811138</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Roger,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The last time I had these messages it was for a drive that surely failed </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">quite rapidly....how old is your hard disk.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">You might want to consider replacing it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">HTH</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thierry</FONT>
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The hard drive is a brand new Maxtor 80G infact the machine runs with two 80G hard drives. Someone<BR>
had suggested upgrading the Kernel, of which i did on Saturday but then Exim got installed accidentally<BR>
and was fighting for resources with Qmail, which i find odd because the machine is supposed to bigger<BR>
in capacity with 1G memory and a 64 bit processor.<BR>
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I will continue monitoring it on a daily basis but i am considering changing the hard drive because what<BR>
happens is that the machine can go on for 7 days without a problem, then the hard drive just starts to die<BR>
an it dies rapidly infact it locks, i.e as in you can still read what is on it, but since it is a mail server, it rejects <BR>
all the mail.<BR>
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Regards<BR>
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Roger<BR>
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