Re: hard drive problems



On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:33:19PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:10:34AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:


[snip]

?(if so how)

First, ensure you have good recent backups.

Then install smartmontools and run a long S.M.A.R.T. test and check the
results.

Why did you recently buy new drives? If it was because old drives
failed, they may have damaged the controller and you're seeing
controller failure instead of drive failure.

upgraded drives 500G -> 1TB. This is one drive of a raid1 md. and I have
onsite and off site backups.

I just want to make sure its sdb not sda

alex


Doug.


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