HELP!! squid dead, /var: Read-only & smartd is confusing
Laurence Orchard
laurence at orchards.org.uk
Sat Feb 25 23:15:53 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:51 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:09 +0000, Laurence Orchard wrote:
> > I am not sure that this IS a hardware problem.
> > smartd initially started complaining about /dev/hdf, this is a single
> > filesystem disc of 120Mb that I used only for backup. As I said I
> > remade the filesystem & checked it, but it found NO errors.
> > At the moment it is not used and has not been used since it was
> > remade, but smartd is still complaining of pending sectors.
>
> A file system might still work, for now, on a drive with hardware
> errors. Drives try to hide disk errors from you as much as possible,
> but there's a limit.
>
> If you're not sure about smartd's report, you could try a few things:
>
> Make sure that drive's the only one on the cable, so you don't have some
> other drive confusing things. If you still get errors, it makes that
> drive, or the interface, suspicious. Try the drive plugged in somewhere
> else to eliminate the interface.
>
> Go to the website for your drive's manufacturer, and download there own
> diagnostic tool. If that throws up warnings, then be quite concerned
> that your drive is unreliable.
>
> --
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> I read messages from the public lists.
>
Ok, I have spent the afternoon running IBM's Drive Fitness Test &
Western Digital's Diag program. Neither found any errors on the drives
even when running the extended tests which read every sector on the
disc.
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