Re: unresponsive system
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On 25-Jan-08, at 3:06 PM, Chris Lale wrote:
Brian McKee wrote:
[...]
I dug up the IBM diagnostics disk and ran it on the machine.
[...]
You might consider using smartctl from the smartmontools package to
test your
hard drives. This article [1] ahould get you started
smart monitoring was running, and smart reported all OK. (the BIOS,
linux daemon and the IBM test all agreed)
In my experience if smart says it's bad it's bad, but often they go
bad without smart noticing.
I'm not sure what exactly that IBM disc was calling a 'controller'
error - since the other tests it ran on that drive it passed......
Brian
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