Re: unresponsive system

[Brian McKee <map@map-heb.com>]

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On 24-Jan-08, at 9:09 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:01:31 -0500
> Brian McKee <map@map-heb.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > 	A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producing
> > a continuous tone after being unused for a while, then logging in.
> > Now it's running a wee mite slow....
> >
> > Yep - it took it over an hour to run top once and put the output in a
> > file.  Then it started beeping again.
> > I had to hard reboot it (the noise was driving me batty) and guess
> > what - output.txt is nowhere to be found!
> What kind of noise is it?
>
> Coming from the hard drive?
>
> Based on the above...if it takes forever to write to output.txt, it  
> looks like hard drive is messed up.

No,  it's the same tone an origin as the POST beep or console beep -  
only it's a continuous tone.

There are three drives in there - software RAID 5 - and they seem to  
resync fine.

Brian
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