disk controller problem?

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 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??

Errors generated by SCSI hardware basically.  You'll explicitly see
something like "Sense Key" in the error.

> 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.

oh well, worth a try.

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