Well I'm geting there slowly but surely.
This home-built server machine is using hard drive caddies.
I've taken my working backup drive from the caddy (secondary
master), and replaced it with a small GB test drive.
The problem was originally with the drive connected to the
onboard IDE primary
On 11/20/10 4:12 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
So it appears the onboard IDE controller is working OK, and
the problem appears to be from the IDE ribbon cable, to one
of the HDD caddies.
Any suggs please?
Errr, if you have established that you have a bad cable, isn't the obvious
solution to
From: Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Lamar Owen wrote:
Might want to check the power supply as well. Bad/flakey
power can indeed case damage to the drive surface; been
there, done that, have two Maxtor 250GB drives with
scribbled servo data to prove it.
OK.
I'm
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Keith Roberts wrote:
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From: Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net
Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, William Warren wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
From: William Warren hescomins
Keith Roberts wrote, On 11/03/2010 10:32 AM:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Keith Roberts wrote:
SNIP
There were about 79 Seek errors in the SMART logs of the
HDD.
SNIP
vivard did not show any errors when doing a full disk erase.
So I ran an Advanced r/w scan again with Hitachi DFT, and
the
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Todd Denniston wrote:
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From: Todd Denniston todd.dennis...@tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil
Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
Keith Roberts wrote, On 11/03/2010 10:32 AM:
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Keith Roberts wrote:
SNIP
There were
On 11/3/2010 8:32 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
So to prepare the disk for returning under warranty, I used
another HDD utility to clean the disk again
...
So I ran an Advanced r/w scan again with Hitachi DFT, and
the result was OK.
A complete disk wipe brings bad sectors to the drive's
Warren Young wrote:
On 11/3/2010 8:32 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
So to prepare the disk for returning under warranty, I used
another HDD utility to clean the disk again
...
So I ran an Advanced r/w scan again with Hitachi DFT, and
the result was OK.
A complete disk wipe brings bad sectors
On 11/3/2010 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Yeah, but I have problems with smartmon:
More likely, problems with SMART. S.M.A.R.T. is D.U.M.B. :)
It's better than nothing, but sometimes not by a whole lot.
one server that's got two bad sectors, which SMART reports. I've followed
the
On 11/03/10 17:01, Keith Roberts wrote:
There were no sectors remapped, which is odd as there were
bad sectors originally on the drive. I ran MemTest86+ out of
curiousity, and there are 5120 Errors, some at 0.4MB 0.5
MB.
You should fix that first.
The BIOS has been playing up, not
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, RedShift wrote:
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From: RedShift redsh...@pandora.be
Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
On 11/03/10 17:01, Keith Roberts wrote:
There were no sectors remapped, which is odd as there were
bad sectors originally
On Wednesday, November 03, 2010 02:51:02 pm RedShift wrote:
On 11/03/10 17:01, Keith Roberts wrote:
Could a bad controller or bad RAM cause Hard Drive sector
errors?
Neither bad RAM or a bad controllor can physically damage a hard drive. A bad
controller will not cause reallocated
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Lamar Owen wrote:
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From: Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu
Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
On Wednesday, November 03, 2010 02:51:02 pm RedShift wrote:
On 11/03/10 17:01, Keith Roberts wrote:
Could a bad controller or bad RAM
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Warren Young wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
From: Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com
Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
On 11/3/2010 8:32 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
So to prepare the disk for returning under warranty, I used
another HDD utility
On 11/03/10 3:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
I'm running the server from an APC UPS Back-UPS 650, so
there should not be any glitches in the power supply, should
there?
thats a simple standby kind of UPS, acts like a 'surge protector' when
the AC is on, and only switches to the battery powered
On 11/03/2010 03:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Lamar Owen wrote:
Might want to check the power supply as well. Bad/flakey
power can indeed case damage to the drive surface; been
there, done that, have two Maxtor 250GB drives with
scribbled servo data to prove it.
OK.
I'm
On 11/3/2010 4:18 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
I might shell out some dosh for a copy if it can
non-destructably repair bad sectors.
Try fsck -cc first. (Or badblocks -n) These do part of what SR does
already, so if they work, that's all you need. Step up only when you
need something that
At Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:13:03 + (GMT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Lamar Owen wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
From: Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu
Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
On Wednesday, November 03, 2010 02:51:02
Hi All.
Yesterday I was installing Centos 5.5 to my web server, and
it looks like the main hard drive has gone AWOL.
Fedora 12 put the file system into r/o mode.
The drive is an Hitachi, still under warranty.
There are bad sectors on it, and running the Hitachi DFT
tool confirms this. Also I
On 10/31/2010 3:27 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
Hi All.
Yesterday I was installing Centos 5.5 to my web server, and
it looks like the main hard drive has gone AWOL.
Fedora 12 put the file system into r/o mode.
The drive is an Hitachi, still under warranty.
There are bad sectors on it, and
On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, William Warren wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
From: William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
Subject: Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes
On 10/31/2010 3:27 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
Hi All.
Yesterday I was installing Centos 5.5 to my
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