> > > Check that your drive does not overheats (and that it really can do
> > > several months of uptime). And that it does not contains any hidden
> > > remapped bad sectors (is there a way to query SMART-alike stuff in
> > > SCSI?)

Of course..;-)

smartd and smartctl

AUTHOR
       Michael Cornwell, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
       Concurrent Systems Laboratory
       Jack Baskin School of Engineering
       University of California Santa Cruz
       http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/

smartctl-2.1            September 13, 2001              SMARTD(8)

You can run smartd in your startup scripts and have your SCSI-2/3 disks under 
control. I have a version for SuSE 7.3 attached.

Jan 15 21:24:54 SunWave1 smartd: smartd started
Jan 15 21:24:54 SunWave1 smartd: Device: /dev/sda, Found and is SMART capable
Jan 15 21:24:54 SunWave1 smartd: Device: /dev/sdb, Found and is SMART capable
Jan 15 21:24:54 SunWave1 smartd: Device: /dev/sdc, Found and is SMART capable
[-]
Jan 15 21:54:54 SunWave1 smartd: Device: /dev/sda, Temperature changed 9 
degrees to 27 degress since last reading

SunWave1 /home/nuetzel# /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/sda
Device: IBM      DDYS-T18350N     Version: S96H
Device supports S.M.A.R.T. and is Enabled
Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported
S.M.A.R.T. Sense: Okay!
Current Drive Temperature:     28 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        85 C
Current start stop count:      128 times
Recommended start stop count:  2555920 times

SunWave1 /home/nuetzel# /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/sdb
Device: IBM      DDRS-34560D      Version: DC1B
Device supports S.M.A.R.T. and is Enabled
Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported
S.M.A.R.T. Sense: Okay!

> > That's what coming to my  mind.
> > Ill look into the overheating possibility. Its a pretty jam packed rack :)
>
> Perhaps some additional fans might need to be installed ;)
> You might want to measure temperature in the rack, and there are
> recommended > values, you can get the numbers from vendor's site, I
> believe. 

The case temperature shouldn't go over 40�C.

Regards,
        Dieter
-- 
Dieter N�tzel
Graduate Student, Computer Science

University of Hamburg
Department of Computer Science
@home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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