On 07/03/2011 11:25 AM, Ross Boylan wrote:
How can I tell which ata device is which hard drive? It's come up several times for me, most recently with ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen It appears from other info that sdb is the problem: <terminal> # smartctl -H /dev/sdb Sun Jul 3 10:26:29 PDT 2011 smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Short INQUIRY response, skip product id A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. </terminal> but I'd like to know how to do this in general. I'd also welcome advice about the disk problems, but I was hoping to raise the odds of an answer by keeping it simple :) sdb has had hardware problems for awhile; it wouldn't be surprising if it's failed. Running lenny with linux 2.6.26-2-686. Thanks. Ross My basic advice in this situation is: 1. unmount the failing drive if it is mounted, and mount it's partitions read only. 2. back up it's mounted partitions to a good drive using tar: Assuming the mount points are /sdb1 /sdb2 /sdb3 cd / for i in 1 2 3; do tar cf- sdb$i | bzip2 -c -9 > /somewhere/backup/sdb$i done 3. If the drive is still under warranty, then run secure erase. read up on hdparm (man hdparm) If you go this route, I can send you a script for proper use of hdparm to securely erase a drive. After erasing, then get and RMA and send it away for replacement. 4. If you purchase a new drive, you will then partition it and tar back the backups to it. |