Yes! I concur you have to rule out overheating and failing fans. Tom Penney wrote: > 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... -- Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff rick at eworld3.net 952-929-1659 _______________________________________________ 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