On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:54:58AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:43:55AM +0100, Frank Hart wrote: > > My Athlon 3400Mhz server was running flawlessly until a couple of weeks > > ago. The system is fitted with 2 SATA 200GB Maxtor disks in a Raid 1 > > configuration with mdadm and a seperate IDE disk. The motherboard is an > > Asus MB K8V-MX AMD S754. > > > > All of a sudden the system freezed. I did a hard reset and after an hour > > it stopped again. The logging reported dma errors on the seperate IDE > > disk and RAID failures. Now, the server also refused to boot. After I > > disconnected one SATA disk it would start again. Thinking it was a disk > > failure, I replaced the disk the following day only to find out that > > after installing the new disk, the system wouldn't boot at all. After > > disconnecting all cables (except to power :P) and removing the memory > > the system beeped a couple of times. I replaced the motherboard with a > > new K8V-MX and all seemed fine again. But one day later the other SATA > > disk got thrown out of the mirror and the system again didn't want to > > boot. I replaced the SATA disk and the IDE disk with brand new ones. > > > > Now, I was pretty convinced all this horror happened because of some > > power surge so after replacing the disks I installed an APC with power > > overload protection. But after just a couple of days the SATA disk I > > replaced first started to give errors again. Mdadm reports errors on all > > mirror sets and after an upgrade to kernel 2.6.15 I can't get the disk > > out of faulty status. > > > > Can someone enlighten me what the hell is going on here? I replaced all > > components except the power supply. Could this be the problem? The only > > one who is benefitting from all this is the local PC store ;) > > Perhaps your power supply is defective and not providing steady power, > or isn't happy with the load that is on it. I have seen quite a few > systems that were unstable and had disk issues and crashed, where the > problem disappeared once a quality power supply was installed.
True enough. If you had a power spike, anything connected to power could be now suspect. PS on down. I didn't read where you checked your disk cables. I've had more than a couple of cables of various sorts just suddenly go bad for no reason. Good luck with it. Cheers, a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
