Bowie Bailey wrote:
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
The ideal should be to use the SmartTools utilities, but, if I'm right, there're problems with SATA support.
smartctl on CentOS >= 4.3, supports SATA just fine.
Sounds good. I'll give it a try.
I tried smartctl and it ran fine, but found no errors (on the short test).
FYI - I had to specify the ata device type to make it work.
smartctl -d ata -t short /dev/sda
I was also able to get the smartd service running by adding '-d ata' to both lines in the /etc/smartd.conf file.
Everything seems to be running normally now. Smartd is configured to send me email on problems now, so I'll keep an eye on it and see what happens.
Well given the simultaneous errors from both disks, and the all-clear from smartctl, it *really* sounds like a problem external to the disks, I.E.: cables, controller etc.
Cian
Cian Cullinan wrote:
Well given the simultaneous errors from both disks, and the all-clear from smartctl, it *really* sounds like a problem external to the disks, I.E.: cables, controller etc.
I had a workstation machine a number of years ago that had a similar problem. I was able to duplicate the problem and make it go away at will by enabling/disabling the fan that was on the southbridge chip that controlled diskIO for that particular motherboard. Removing the fan/heatsink entirely triggered a wave of disk errors. "Freezing" the chip with a "can of compressed air" would make the errors stop (until the chip heated up again). I was rather poor at the time so I temporarily solved it by shoehorning a bigger heatsink onto the southbridge until I could afford a new motherboard.
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