Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:35:08 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 19:19 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:25:18 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up several times for me, most recently with ata2.00: exception

disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Ross Boylan
this in general. I'd also welcome advice about the disk problems, but I was hoping to raise the odds of an answer by keeping it simple :) sdb has had hardware problems for awhile; it wouldn't be surprising if it's failed. Running lenny with linux 2.6.26-2-686. Thanks. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread JD
permissive' options. /terminal but I'd like to know how to do this in general. I'd also welcome advice about the disk problems, but I was hoping to raise the odds of an answer by keeping it simple :) sdb has had hardware problems for awhile; it wouldn't be surprising if it's failed. Running lenny

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:25:18 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up several times for me, most recently with ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen (...) You can: - Run smartctl -i /dev/sdb | grep -i model -

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 19:19 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:25:18 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up several times for me, most recently with ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen (...)

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Ross Boylan
failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. /terminal but I'd like to know how to do this in general. I'd also welcome advice about the disk problems, but I was hoping to raise the odds of an answer by keeping it simple :) sdb has had hardware problems

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Mike Castle
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Ross Boylan rossboy...@stanfordalumni.org wrote: How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive?  It's come up several times for me, most recently with ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Depending on how long since boot, you

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 July 2011 22:35:08 Ross Boylan wrote: (see original message) Not a very productive instruction to those of us who have HTML display turned off. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

message formatting and pseudo XML [was Re: disk problems: which ATA?]

2011-07-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 23:40 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 03 July 2011 22:35:08 Ross Boylan wrote: (see original message) Not a very productive instruction to those of us who have HTML display turned off. Lisi That's interesting. The messages are not in html. However, I did use a

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Brian
:0:0/device/ | grep block: I'd also welcome advice about the disk problems, but I was hoping to raise the odds of an answer by keeping it simple :) You thought devising an answer to your first question would be easy? I've just spent the best part of two hours on it! No time now to sort out your

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Pablo Sánchez
Ross, maybe it's been suggested, but running smartctl -i /dev/sdb on all drives, you could get serial numbers. If you get all but one, open the case, identify those you already listed on smartctl , the other(s) one(s) are the problematic ones. I had to do it some time ago. Pablo Sánchez On

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

2011-07-03 Thread Ross Boylan
not sure how to go from ata - scsi. I'd also welcome advice about the disk problems, but I was hoping to raise the odds of an answer by keeping it simple :) You thought devising an answer to your first question would be easy? Neither I nor my real sysadmin could figure it out. I was hoping

Re: message formatting and pseudo XML [was Re: disk problems: which ATA?]

2011-07-03 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 03:56:30PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 23:40 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 03 July 2011 22:35:08 Ross Boylan wrote: (see original message) Not a very productive instruction to those of us who have HTML display turned off. Lisi

Re: message formatting and pseudo XML [was Re: disk problems: which ATA?]

2011-07-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 July 2011 23:56:30 you wrote: On Sun, 2011-07-03 at 23:40 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Sunday 03 July 2011 22:35:08 Ross Boylan wrote: (see original message) Not a very productive instruction to those of us who have HTML display turned off. Lisi That's interesting. The

Re: ATA Disk problems.

2010-09-02 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:39:21 -0700, Account for Debian group mail wrote: One of my mail servers is having some disk problems. I see stuff like this in my log files: (...) Run a smart test with smartcl and check for the results. Just note that some hardware raid controllers do not allow

ATA Disk problems.

2010-09-01 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello, One of my mail servers is having some disk problems. I see stuff like this in my log files: Sep 1 05:14:24 mail kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 1 05:14:24 mail kernel: ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x4 Sep 1 05:14:24 mail kernel: ata1.00: cmd 25/00:f8

[Resolved] Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-18 Thread Ralph Katz
-- On 03 Jun 2010 19:22:48 -0400, Message-id: 4c083948.4090...@rcn.com I wrote -- On 06/03/2010 05:53 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ralph Katz: On 06/03/2010 01:45 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was: 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ralph Katz: Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? Another option: it might be a kernel problem. I don't remember the specifics anymore, but on one of my systems I had similar errors. After

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread David Baron
I sometimes get this. The disks click-clack. Those messages. Usually rebooting after jiggling the cables fixes it. Maybe replace them. Also check the power supply. Working? Adequate? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ralph, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ralph Katz: Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? Another option: it might be a kernel problem. I don't remember the specifics anymore, but on one of my systems I

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Anand Sivaram
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 21:24, Daniel Barclay dan...@fgm.com wrote: Ralph, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ralph Katz: Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? Another option: it might be a kernel

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/03/2010 12:48 PM, Anand Sivaram wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 21:24, Daniel Barclay dan...@fgm.com mailto:dan...@fgm.com wrote: Ralph, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ralph Katz: Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ralph Katz: As mentioned in the original post, disk PASSED SMART tests, and computer is a P4. Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz single processor hda: UDMA/100 mode selected Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was: 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/03/2010 01:45 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ralph Katz: As mentioned in the original post, disk PASSED SMART tests, and computer is a P4. Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.70GHz single processor hda: UDMA/100 mode selected Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was:

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ralph Katz: On 06/03/2010 01:45 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was: 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03) Where would I find it? Just run lspci. You think those errors could come from the

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/03/2010 05:53 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ralph Katz: On 06/03/2010 01:45 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was: 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03) Where would I find it? Just run lspci.

Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-02 Thread Ralph Katz
Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? Short of buying a new disk, how would I know? What would you recommend? Or do I have a simple BIOS setting problem? (My last post to debian-user was in 2008.

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-02 Thread Mark
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Ralph Katz ralph.k...@rcn.com wrote: Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? Short of buying a new disk, how would I know? What would you recommend? Or do I have

UBS disk problems

2006-01-07 Thread Z F
Hello everybody, I was searching the web, saw that some people have similar problem, but I could not find a solution... The problem is that I have a USB hard drive and when it is plugged in, it is detected fine and works on small files. If a large file is copied to the drive, something bad

Re: Disk problems? (was: Re: dpkg fails)

2003-03-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 07:49:01PM -0800, Ron Farrer wrote: Second update: after doing some disk intensive work, these show up in the system log: Mar 9 19:16:27 dmz kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Request Sense 00 00 00 10 00 Mar 9 19:16:27 dmz kernel: Info

Disk problems? (was: Re: dpkg fails)

2003-03-09 Thread Ron Farrer
Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: snip Update: it's not just ipmasq. I also tried to install wget and it fails in the same way. TIA, Ron Second update: after doing some disk intensive work, these show up in the system log: Mar 9 19:16:27 dmz kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0,

Help: disk problems..

2000-05-12 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Help!! I had a working system, and after several weeks up we were moving some (Apache) files around and wanted to make sure that the system setup for Apache was OK, se we re-booted. At re-boot I now get: |-- | ... | .. checking root file system | fsck.ext2: attempt to read

Re: Help: disk problems..

2000-05-12 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 04:49:21PM -0500, Gregory Guthrie wrote Help!! I had a working system, and after several weeks up we were moving some (Apache) files around and wanted to make sure that the system setup for Apache was OK, se we re-booted. At re-boot I now get: |-- |

Re: Hard disk problems

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
Dear Kaa: Thanks for the suggestions. On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com wrote: Yes, but given that the kernel believes there is FAT12 partition, it seems that there is something wrong with the partition table or at least the reading thereof. Is the low-level

Re: Hard disk problems

1999-06-30 Thread [ Kaa ]
From: charles kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to avoid repartitioning. I will if nothing else works. But I don't know what 'low level format' means. I remember doing that for DOS before there was IDE, but thought it wasn't needed anymore. Thanks for all the information. Chuck Kaufman

Re: Backup of MBF (was Hard disk problems)

1999-06-30 Thread Peter Ross
On 30-Jun-1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: charles kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to avoid repartitioning. I will if nothing else works. But I don't know what 'low level format' means. I remember doing that for DOS before there was IDE, but

Re: Backup of MBF (was Hard disk problems)

1999-06-30 Thread Dean
I'm not an expert but it was my understanding a low-level format was only done at the factory as it required special equipment, and that a new hard drive was less expensive. Also I thought LILO had a backup utility for the MBR. Dean Low-level format is *not* needed any more -- that is, as

Re: Hard disk problems

1999-06-29 Thread [ Kaa ]
From: charles kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the hint. Of course I don't know whether it's a BIOS disk geometry problem. In fact fdisk says the disk has 1027 cylinders. ^^ But it reports hda1 (dos) is 1 to 64, hda2 (linux) is 65 to

Disk problems

1998-11-03 Thread Biciunas, Paul John
Hello, all. I installed Debian 2.0 (2.0.34) Greenbush distribution. My disks are 2 IDE drives, a 540M and 2.5G slave. The partitions are (df output) /dev/hda1 99029 ... / /dev/hda3 348873 ... /home /dev/hdb1 495714 ... /var /dev/hdb2 1926659 ... /usr I had problems making a

Re: Disk problems

1998-11-03 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 07:32:19AM -0500, Biciunas, Paul John wrote: Hello, all. I installed Debian 2.0 (2.0.34) Greenbush distribution. My disks are 2 IDE drives, a 540M and 2.5G slave. The partitions are (df output) /dev/hda1 99029 ... / /dev/hda3 348873 ... /home /dev/hdb1

Weird Rescue Disk problems

1998-08-05 Thread Matt Kopishke
Hello, I am trying to do a fresh install of Hamm (2.0 Beta cd from Cheap Bytes). My harware does not support cd booting, and I don't have dos drivers for my CD rom, so I need to use a Rescue Disk to get thing going. But I make the Disk from 1440.bin with Rawrite2, reboot, watch it load root.bin,

Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

1997-10-26 Thread Colin R. Telmer
A server in my department has suddenly created (or altered) some files and I cannot figure out how to remove them. Below is the a part of the original note sent to me and I have tried various attempts to remove the files as weel with no avail. I even went to the point of creating a user with uid

RE: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

1997-10-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Oct-97 Colin R. Telmer wrote: A server in my department has suddenly created (or altered) some files and I cannot figure out how to remove them. Below is the a part of the original note sent to me and I have tried various attempts to remove the files as weel with no avail. I even went

Re: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

1997-10-26 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997 09:42:59 EST Colin R. Telmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Unmounted /home without any problems and ran e2fsck with the check for bad blocks and force options. However, the disk seems to be fine. Strange. Here are the key parts of the original note: There are

Re: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

1997-10-26 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: Looking more closely at /reevesj/.netscape/cache, one finds: br--r-srwx 1 2878729728 73, 60 May 21 2025 07 Notice the date and the permissions! Whatever this is, I cannot remove it, even using rm -f, as root! I also cannot

RE: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

1997-10-26 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Ted Harding wrote: Try (non-destructively) e2fsck -fnV on the device with these files and stand back ... (at any rate pipe it through less). I predict several thousand lines of possibly alarming information. Depending on what you see, you may judge that it's worth taking

Re: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

1997-10-26 Thread Ben Pfaff
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unmounted /home without any problems and ran e2fsck with the check for bad blocks and force options. However, the disk seems to be fine. Strange. You might want to try the debugfs program. Perhaps it can unlink the files. -- Ben Pfaff [EMAIL

RE: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

1997-10-26 Thread Ted Harding
On 26-Oct-97 Colin R. Telmer wrote: I have done a e2fsck -fnv but it also did not reveal any problems (output below). However, it did reveal the existence of 27 block device files that I assume have no reason to be under /home. I'm at a loss - any other suggestions? Thanks, Colin.

Re: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack - solved

1997-10-26 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On 26 Oct 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unmounted /home without any problems and ran e2fsck with the check for bad blocks and force options. However, the disk seems to be fine. Strange. You might want to try the debugfs program. Perhaps it can

Re: disk problems

1997-04-08 Thread Mary Conner
On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Matt Lawrence wrote: Ok, I've run out of places to look. I'm getting occasional hda:timeout messages and my system is locking up with a disk error after anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days. When it locks up, I can still change virtual consoles, but I can't

HELP!! Boot Disk Problems

1997-04-07 Thread Adam Greene
I ATTEMPTED to install the Debian 1.2.4 off of a CheapBytes CD and the boot disks hung on the md driver and I could not go any further, I have a working Slackware, so I compiled a Ramdisk enabled kernel, stuck it on the disk and rebooted, that worked fine, but the kernel seemed to hang on

disk problems

1997-04-06 Thread Matt Lawrence
Ok, I've run out of places to look. I'm getting occasional hda:timeout messages and my system is locking up with a disk error after anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days. When it locks up, I can still change virtual consoles, but I can't run anything and ctrl-alt-del doesn't work. Since