I am running a Dell Precision 690.  The disks are Seagate Barracuda.

I will try vdt.  (after doing a full backup).

Mirko

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Musayev, Ilya <imusa...@webmd.net> wrote:

> You don't mention what hardware and disk controller you are running.
>
> I can tell you if its HP G1 hardware with CCISS 200/200i - you may want to
> check the firmware and possibly linux CCISS module.
>
> I wont go into more details unless that is the case and you are running HP
> hardware.
>
> You can also try burn testing you disks, i use a tool called vdt by alex
> botao, there are probably others you can use.
>
> Best of luck
> -ilya
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> Behalf Of Hugh Brown [hbr...@divms.uiowa.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:10 AM
> To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list
> Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] read-only file system errors: what is causing
> them and how to avoid them?
>
> On 10/05/2011 08:54 AM, Mirko Vukovic wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wrote a script to clean up about 80GB of data from one disk and replace
> > the deleted data by their archives.  The archives were created ahead of
> time
> > and stored on a second disk.
> > The script starts OK, but after a while, I get errors due to `read-only
> file
> > system'.
> >
> > I read that I can reset the file access by remounting the file system,
> and
> > that works.  I can then restart the script, but I get the error again
> after
> > a while.  What am I doing to cause this error?
> >
> > The script, in pseudocode:
> >
> > for dir in `...'
> > do
> >     rm -f $dir
> >     cp $archive (from other disk) $dir
> > done
> >
> > Should I put a pause statement, or do something else?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> >
> > Mirko
> >
>
>
> If a file system goes read-only, it's usually because of read/write
> errors (i.e. a failing disk).
>
> Check your smartd output and /var/log/messages for errors.
>
> Hugh
>
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