Re: disk problems: which ATA?

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: e

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

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 inte

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

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. > >

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

bolic drive (e.g., sda)--which is good to know. But I'm 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 you

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

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 Su

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

lass/scsi_disk/0:0:0:0/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

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

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 u

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

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 listmas...@li

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:25 AM, 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 Depending on how long since boot, you can often explore the output

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

ls.sourceforge.net/ > > > > Short INQUIRY response, skip product id > > A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more > > '-T permissive' options. > > > > but I'd like to know how to do this in general. > > > >

Re: disk problems: which ATA?

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?

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?

permissive' options. 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 faile

disk problems: which ATA?

his 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 -- T

Re: ATA Disk problems.

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 controll

ATA Disk problems.

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?

-- 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 Corp

Re: Disk problems or worse?

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? > >

Re: Disk problems or worse?

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

Re: Disk problems or worse?

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?

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?

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

Re: Disk problems or worse?

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 21:24, Daniel Barclay 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 kerne

Re: Disk problems or worse?

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 ha

Re: Disk problems or worse?

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? Con

Re: Disk problems or worse?

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 rep

Re: Disk problems or worse?

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Ralph Katz 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 a simple BIOS

Disk problems or worse?

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.

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

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: I

Disk problems? (was: Re: dpkg fails)

Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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, i

Re: Help: disk problems..

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: > |--

Help: disk problems..

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 block

Re: Backup of MBF (was Hard disk problems)

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 lo

Re: Backup of MBF (was Hard disk problems)

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 ID

Re: Hard disk problems

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: Hard disk problems

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

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 t

Re: Disk problems

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

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

RE: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

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Re: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

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 Pf

RE: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

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 ta

Re: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

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 als

Re: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

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: > > T

RE: Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack

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Re: disk problems

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