Re: SCSI Disk Errors With Cron
on 3/19/01 11:53 AM, peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 11:37:32AM -0500, Webmaster wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'd just like a quick confirmation of my assumption, please. I have a
>> series of cron jobs that run from /etc/cron.daily at 6:25am. They are
>> mostly log rotation scripts and such. However, I get the following error in
>> my syslog just about every morning and it remounts the disk into read-only
>> mode, forcing me to log in and fix things.
>>
>> kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 8000000
>> kernel: Info fld=0x299408, Current sd08:07: sense key Recovered Error
>> kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:07, sector 2359624
>>
>> Is this truly a problem with the disk (as I'm convinced that it's fine) and,
>> if so, is there a way I can fix it without having to buy a new one?
>
> Does your system spin down its disks? Maybe the drive doesn't wake up fast
> enough for the kernel?
That's always a possibility... How would I combat that? Is there a way to
have it spin up the disks before starting the log rotations?
Thanks,
Daryl
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