smartctl -a /dev/(sda or hda) will spit out some smart information. If it is an ide drive it should barf some good stuff that no one understands, just look at the top 10 lines, it should tell you if the smart test passed or failed. Good luck.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James D. Parra Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 12:46 PM To: Redhat-List (E-mail) Subject: How to test for hard drive errors in raid set Hello, The server in question was running well until a couple of days ago when all interaction started taking an extremely long time to initiate. This included loading of services during boot-up and even something simple as logging in will take about a minute or two. I found the following (below) in the logs. It appears there is problem with one of the drives on the raid-set (3Ware Escalade 8000 with three drives). How can I test each drive individually to detect physical problems? Also, the error message identifies something wrong with unit #4, but there are only three drives in the raid (RAID -5). What commands can I use to test the drives and perform diagnostics? Many thanks in advance. [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# cat syslog Aug 5 04:02:46 DC syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Aug 5 04:05:08 DC kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: Command failed: status = 0xc7, flags = 0x1b, unit #4. Aug 5 04:05:09 DC kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: Command failed: status = 0xc7, flags = 0x1b, unit #4. Aug 5 04:05:09 DC kernel: 3w-xxxx: PCI Parity Error: clearing. Aug 5 04:05:09 DC kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi0: Reset succeeded. Aug 5 04:05:53 DC : Aug 5 04:05:53 DC : Security Warning: Change in World Writable Files found : Aug 5 04:05:53 DC : - No longer present writable file : /home/cvs/CVSROOT James -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
