[CentOS] Re: Hard drive errors

Fri Sep 22 13:06:42 UTC 2006
Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com>

Scott Silva wrote:
> Bowie Bailey spake the following on 9/21/2006 12:56 PM:
> > One of my CentOS boxes has started giving me errors.  The box is
> > CentOS-4.4 (i386) fully updated.  It has a pair of SATA drives in a
> > software raid 1 configuration.
> > 
> > The errors I see are:
> > 
> >     ata1: command 0xca timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24
> >     ata1: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> >     Info fld=0x1e22b8, Current sda: sense key No Sense
> >     ata2: command 0xca timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24
> >     ata2: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> >     Info fld=0x1e2598, Current sdb: sense key No Sense
> > 
> > If it was just coming from one drive, I would say it was a bad
> > drive, but this is happening on both drives.
> > 
> > Can anyone give me a starting place to diagnose this?
> 
> Cables? Connections? Power supply going bad?

Already reseated all of the cables.  I even moved the drives to two
different
SATA ports on the MB.

Power supply...maybe, but not my first guess.  I may swap it out later if I
can't find any other cause.

-- 
Bowie