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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 this |
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> > happen I get the following error. Should I be concerned? Does anyone know |
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> > of any resources that I can read up on that will explain that all of this |
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> > mean? |
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> yes, you should. Errors like this have usually one of this causes: |
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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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Alan <alan@×××××.org> - http://arcterex.net |
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"Backups are for people who don't pray." -- big Mike |
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