-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Jan-08, at 9:51 AM, Federico Lazcano wrote:
El Jueves, 24 de Enero de 2008 12:24, Brian McKee escribió: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:A little while back I was trying to fix a system that was producinga 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 afile. 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.checkout temp and consult your motherboard manual
The manual wasn't much help. The temps seem ok too. Well, this has been educational.... I dug up the IBM diagnostics disk and ran it on the machine.It eventually (12ish hours later) found a problem with the controller on the third hard drive.
But when I swapped in a new drive it claimed that one was bad too....On a hunch I changed out the CD-RW on the same cable and now both those hard drives passed the test.
So, I'm hoping the issue was funkiness with that CD-RW (even though it appeared to be working ok).
I'll run it for a while now and see if the problems return. Brian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Verify this email or encrypt your email for free - see gnupg.org iD8DBQFHmgrGGnOmb9xIQHQRApKDAJ9Kq3l5QgLe9EdjRQJh7iSTQ8mb2gCfcfy+ tCgGX+QTyy1vo561LMhKQfc= =TJgu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----