Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-26 Thread David Christensen
On 4/26/22 15:04, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:56:50 -0700 David Christensen wrote: On 4/25/22 07:18, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 22:52:15 -0700 David Christensen wrote: Rather than a Live Linux distribution for troubleshooting, I install Debian onto a

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-26 Thread Charles Curley
Update. I had a friend with a power supply checker check the power supply. The +12 volt line is running at 11.5v, barely within spec. Fishy, but livable for the nonce. I had been running Finnix as Debian wouldn't boot. I pulled all the external USB lines except for a 3.5" external floppy disk

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-25 Thread David Christensen
On 4/25/22 07:18, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 22:52:15 -0700 David Christensen wrote: So, RAID 5 HDD's are sda, sdc, and sdd, and optical is sdb? Optical is sr0. Interesting. (Must be the SATA controller expansion card?) sda is an SSD with all the system, /home, etc.

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 22:47:50 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > I will assume all three HDD's are the same make and model, per > smartctl(8) report below. Nope. Two WD Reds, as the report indicates, but not bought at the same time so likely to be different in detail. One Seagate Ironwolf. > >>

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 22:52:15 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > So, RAID 5 HDD's are sda, sdc, and sdd, and optical is sdb? Optical is sr0. sda is an SSD with all the system, /home, etc. md0 is mounted at /crc. > > > You do have a backup of your Debian system configuration files and > your

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-24 Thread David Christensen
On 4/24/22 17:10, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 13:08:03 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: I have three hard drives in a RAID 5 array. RAID has not yet failed the errant drive. Just now, via ssh into finnix: root@0:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [linear]

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-24 Thread David Christensen
On 4/24/22 15:37, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 14:07:14 -0700 David Christensen wrote: On 4/24/22 12:08, Charles Curley wrote: I have three hard drives in a RAID 5 array. What is the make and model of your motherboard? ASUS H97M-E I'd call that a multimedia desktop

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 13:08:03 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > I have three hard drives in a RAID 5 array. RAID has not yet failed the errant drive. Just now, via ssh into finnix: root@0:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10]

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 14:07:14 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > On 4/24/22 12:08, Charles Curley wrote: > > I have three hard drives in a RAID 5 array. > > > What is the make and model of your motherboard? RAID HDD's? ASUS H97M-E > > > How is the motherboard connected to the HDD's? SATA.

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-24 Thread David Christensen
On 4/24/22 12:08, Charles Curley wrote: I have three hard drives in a RAID 5 array. This morning my motherboard went wonky and crashed. USB devices on the motherboard are acting up. I cannot reboot to Debian. I can, however, boot to finnix 120. Using that, I have fscked all partitions, including

Re: Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Hello Charles On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 01:08:03PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > I have three hard drives in a RAID 5 array. This morning my motherboard > went wonky and crashed. USB devices on the motherboard are acting up. I > cannot reboot to Debian. I can, however, boot to finnix 120. Using >

Do I need a new hard drive?

2022-04-24 Thread Charles Curley
I have three hard drives in a RAID 5 array. This morning my motherboard went wonky and crashed. USB devices on the motherboard are acting up. I cannot reboot to Debian. I can, however, boot to finnix 120. Using that, I have fscked all partitions, including the RAID array. I am running checksums,