[rhn-users] rebuild kernel or get new hard drive?

[Richard Riley]

If you reboot from the console, on startup, it will ask if you want to
run fsck on the drives.  Answer yes. If you are running raid disks, it
should repair any problems if it is simply a bad spot on a disk.  If you
are not running raid or only have one disk, your problem will probably
be more severe.  If it is a bad spot on the hard drive, you might be
able to reformat that partition.  If the partition is root or usr, you
may need to rebuild the machine from scratch.  This will allow you to
run a reformat of the entire disk to fix all bad spots.  It may be that
the disk or its controller are bad and that would mean replacing it and
starting from scratch.

Good Luck.

Richard Riley
System Administrator

Procuri Inc.
www.procuri.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paula J. Lindsay
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:26 PM
> To: Red Hat Network Users List
> Subject: [rhn-users] rebuild kernel or get new hard drive?
> 
> Hi everyone,
> One of our RHE 3 machines went down this morning.  This machine runs
> one
> of our very needed instruments here on campus.  Can someone tell me
> if I can
> rebuild the kernel, do an fsck or go out and buy a new harddrive?
> 
> Aug 28 11:22:28 chemino4 kernel: Current sd08:05: sense key Medium
> Error
> Aug 28 11:22:28 chemino4 kernel: Additional sense indicates
> Unrecovered
> read error - auto reallocate failed
> Aug 28 11:22:28 chemino4 kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:05, sector
> 129952
> Aug 28 11:22:28 chemino4 kernel: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0,
> lun 0,
> CDB: Read (10) 00 01 63 f4 83 00 00 08 00
> 
> I don't know how to rebuild the kernel, but if needed, I will find
> out.
> Many thanks for your advice/suggestions/opinions.
> Paula
> 
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