disk controller problem?

[Tony Alfrey]

On Friday 31 January 2003 08:23 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > On Friday 31 January 2003 07:50 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > This doesn't sound like a power supply problem to me.  I think
> > > your controller is dying.  If it were the PSU, this wouldn't
> > > neccesarily effect just the disks, especially when left on
> > > overnight in an idle state.
> >
> > Except maybe when the cron process does updatedb or whatever??
>
> Yea, there is normally a cronjob that does that at like 5AM.  Have
> you checked messages for any sense key errors?

What are sense key errors??
I looked in var/log/messages and when the box is left unattended, it 
seems to do some small cron job every 5 minutes (I guess some sort of 
file system maintennance) but nothing seems out of the ordinary.  It 
shows that I rebooted the machine in the morning but it doesn't show 
that anything went nuts before or as I did that.

>
> > I have another controller (a BusLogic) that plugs into the PCI buss
> > that I can also use instead of the on-board controller.  I don't
> > want to have to use it in the long run because my favorite kernel
> > is compiled for the Symbios controller so I'll need to tweak things
> > if I need to switch over for any extended period, but at least it
> > will narrow down the problem.
>
> That would definitely be the best route at this time.

I might try to recompile my favorite kernel for the BusLogic controller 
but I'll still let it cook on the BusLogic controller overnight.

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Tony Alfrey
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