Irritating disk noise ...

David A. Bandel david
Mon May 17 12:02:11 PDT 2004


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On Thu, 06 May 2004 18:33:19 -0500
Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:

> Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 
> > Hmmmm. . . . . . .
> > I, too, have SCSI drives (4 to be exact).  On my box, this is called
> > the "disk is dying" noise, in much the same status as you describe. 
> > 
> > Replaced one on Monday.  Maybe not the situation you're having, but
> > be cautious.
> 
> Egad! Doan tell me that. These disks will be a week old come Saturday.
> 
> Think I better go take some B's ...

I certainly hope you're running RAID (1 or 5) to deal with this.  If so,
just cat /proc/mdstat.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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