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On Wednesday 01 November 2006 08:22, Alan wrote: |
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> On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:32:36AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 02:08, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: |
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> > > During certain times I my server under goes heavy disc writes. When |
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> > > this happen I get the following error. Should I be concerned? Does |
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> > > anyone know of any resources that I can read up on that will explain |
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> > > that all of this mean? |
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> > yes, you should. Errors like this have usually one of this causes: |
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> > |
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> > disk is dying |
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> > cable is defective |
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> > PSU drops voltages under load |
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> > controller is defective |
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> > ram is defective |
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> > board is just junk |
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> > >From most likely to least likely. |
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> Seconded.... dma_intr errors are never good, pretty much each time I've |
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> seen them they've preceeded a drive failure. From what I remember it's |
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> basically the disk failing and then going out of DMA mode to try to |
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> recover and failing (or something like that). Short answer is start |
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> shopping for new disks if you like your data to be safe :) Or at |
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> minimal do a backup of anything important on there ASAP. |
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well, in my experience, a broken cable with a loose connection can do that |
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too. The IDE-cables are very sensitive, sometimes, when switching drives or |
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just reseating the connectors one of the wires can break. And then you get |
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random errors, which will creep up, when the cable gets warm or cold, or the |
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under load or when the fans blow a little bit harder... |
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I solved some harddrive problems simply by changing the cables. |
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