Rainer Traut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Mike Brodbelt wrote:
>
>
>>>I'm not an expert for those error messages but I guess it unfortunately a
>>>hardware error, isn't it? Did you check dmesg output when this happened?
>>
>>
>>That was the dmesg output - not much goes to logs, as they're on /var,
>>which was the affected filesystem. Things I've seen suggest that this
>>error can certainly be caused by a hardware problem, but the disk is a
>>hardware RAID5 array on an ICP controller, which maintains it's own
>>hardware log of disk problems. I've seen no sign of any problems with
>>the array, and the controller doesn't show anything that could have
>>presented an error to the OS layer, so I'm inclined to doubt the
>>"hardware error" theory at the moment.
>
>
> ICP has a nice tool for managing their Controllers from commandline.
> icpcon it is called, there are some monitoring options like
> View Statistics
> View Events
> View Hard Disk Info
>
> These are all empty and nothing unusual to find in there?
There are a couple of retries on one of the disks, but nothing that I
think should have "show through" to the OS. I suppose I can't discount
the possibility entirely, as the error came up about 4 days after we
relocated the server in question, due to a leaking roof..... It's
conceivable that a SCSI cable could have come loose in the move or
something, but if that had been the case, I'd expect to have seen the
controller actually log an event, and there is nothing like that available.
Mike.
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