Re: How to diagnose hardware problem?

2009-04-14 Thread Graham Bentley
The first two utils I run if I suspect hardware issues both independant of resident os ; http://www.memtest.org/ http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/technolo/dft/dft.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to diagnose hardware problem?

2009-04-13 Thread John Almberg
First things first; if the machine is still in warranty, don't mess with it but send it back to the manufacturer and demand a replacement. It is in warranty and I am following their process. I'm hoping to short-circuit that process by finding the problem on my own, if possible. Plus,

Re: How to diagnose hardware problem?

2009-04-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The database ran well for about 2 minutes, then the server crashed again. The filesystem was again corrupted so badly that we could not even log in to look at the logs. did memtest? it looks like it's fine until you stress your hardware We've reinstalled FreeBSD again, just to be able to

Re: How to diagnose hardware problem?

2009-04-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:07:25PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: I have what looks like a hardware problem with an Intel 1U server, which I am using mainly as a mysql database server for some of my bigger website clients. The server went down last week with a badly corrupted file system.