> > > 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
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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
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Dieter N�tzel
Graduate Student, Computer Science
University of Hamburg
Department of Computer Science
@home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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