Pending SCSI hardware failure?

[Tim Wunder]

On 5/27/2003 10:05 AM, someone claiming to be Andrew Mathews wrote:
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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).
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> | Does this mean my SCSI controller for my tape drive and CD-ROM is going
> | (or gone)?
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> | Clueful insight welcome (since I seem to be lacking in cluefulness
> | lately...).
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> | Thanks,
> | Tim
> |
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> 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.

Thanks.
But I don't think the RAID controller is what's getting mucked up. All 
the messages in /var/log/messages are for scsi0, the PERC is scsi1, 
unless I'm reading things wrong.
Regardless, I don't have apmd running, anyway. I guess I gotta figure 
out what kind of scsi controller scsi0 is, and find a replacement.

Regards,
Tim