On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 23:10, Chris Frederick wrote: > I have a server running Mandrake 9.0, 2 Western Digital 60Gig drives, > and 1 Maxtor 20Gig drive. Lately I've noticed it making high pitched > noises (like a disk would make right before it crashes), and the machine > itself has crashed a few times now. Can you isolate where the noise is coming from? First rule out the fans. fans make that noise when the bearings die. I've seen bad block errors on heat damaged drives in Really Hot machines. If it is a heat related problem, which is unlikely but worth checking, you should still replace the drive that had the errors. To check your fans: with the box running stop your fans one at a time with your finger and see if the noise stops. Shut it down before removing the fan. > There's an e2fs error writing to > certain blocks. They seem to be random, and in large numbers. I've ran > e2fsck, checked for bad blocks in read only mode, and so far it's found > nothing. Changing /etc/fstab to mount all non essential disks read > only, and removing a good number of cron jobs, will let it run without > any errors, but that kinda defeats most of the functions of the server > (backups). > > Is it possible that a disk can fail on a write, but not a read? Or am I > getting a different problem (I hope)? And if it is a disk crash, how > long would you guess I have till it's no longer readable? I'm about > three weeks away from affording a replacement disk. > > Thanks all... -- Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list