This sure sounds like a failing hard drive to me. Over the years, I've had probably a dozen drives fail, almost always starting with I/O errors. A power cycle is frequently required. In fact, I'll be replacing a drive at home today!
Having two drives doesn't improve things. The system is still going to try to access the failing drive and will still generate I/O errors.
If rescue mode couldn't see the disk, you're probably out of luck. Sorry.
Kirk Bocek
Jean Lee wrote:
Hello,
I have a problem with my server :
Sometimes, this server is used to stop running. It doesn't shut down but it stops running (with a noise on the hard drive) and there's no other way to shut down than pushing the power button during a long time. I don't think that it comes from the hard drive because I have the same effect with two hard drives.
Here comes the best : Today it stops running during boot procedure and now, when I reboot the server, I have the following error message :
Buffer I/O error on /dev/hda2 device block 0 Buffer I/O error on /dev/hda2 device block 1 Buffer I/O error on /dev/hda2 device block 2 Buffer I/O error on /dev/hda2 device block 3 Buffer I/O error on /dev/hda2 device block 5 Buffer I/O error on /dev/hda2 device block 0 etc...
I have two questions :
Is there a way to recover data on /dev/hda2 ? (I tried linux rescue but it didn't find the linux installation) Is there a way to know why the server stops suddenly to run ?
Thank you for any help,
Jean LEE
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