Pending SCSI hardware failure?

[Andrew Mathews]

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Tim Wunder wrote:
| I came in this morning to a hung server. Would not respond to pings,
| couldn't access the console, had to pull the plug :-(
| (Stupid me didn't try to get ssh access, but I doubt it woulda worked).
<deletia>
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| Does this mean my SCSI controller for my tape drive and CD-ROM is going
| (or gone)?
|
| Clueful insight welcome (since I seem to be lacking in cluefulness
| lately...).
|
| Thanks,
| Tim
|

Not necessarily, though it's possible. The Dell Perc RAID controllers
sometimes have a hard time when apmd is running. If the system doesn't
have any activity for some time apmd will try to conserve power and the
controller can't wake the devices back up properly which the kernel sees
as a scsi bus problem. I'd try disabling apmd to help determine if it's
the culprit or not.
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Andrew Mathews
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