Re: Detecting I/O error and Halting System

On Maw, 2006-03-28 at 17:07 +0200, zine el abidine Hamid wrote:
I don't think that it's a HDD problem nor a cable
problem because the servers are new. We have tried

New. Thats another word for "untested" I believe 8)

How can I determine the problem?

I would consult the hardware vendor

I want to add that the HDD seems to be disconnected
(the BIOS can't find any drive for boot) after a
simple reset. We must switch off the servers to get
them work again.

Thats strongly indicating a hardware problem.

(http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/) but how can I
shutdown Linux from inside a module...?

See the softdog driver for an example.

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