Gerald Waugh wrote:
> Jim Dory wrote; Tuesday, July 29, 2008 5:38 PM
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>> I have an MSI server running BQ (the on-topic part of post)
>> that tells
>> me a hard drive is failing. I think this may be why I have to
>> reboot the
>> server when I come in to work since email is down then last couple of
>> days. Trying to restart sendmail hangs (via cli) so reboot
>> seems to work.
>>
>> The hard drive is WD2500JS and newegg reports that one is
>> "deactivated".
>> They sell other WD drives like the WD2500AAJS and AAKS. Would
>> the former
>> be fine to use? Thanks much, Jim
>>
>>
> 1st did you try running /etc/init.d/mdchk ?
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> Gerald Waugh
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Not sure what it means but sdb7 doesn't look good..
[root (at mark) srv1 ~]# /etc/init.d/mdchk
-- Reading system configuration from /etc/raidtab
/dev/md1 [raid1]: <sda2> <sdb2>
/dev/md2 [raid1]: <sda6> <sdb6>
/dev/md3 [raid1]: <sda3> <sdb3>
/dev/md4 [raid1]: <sda7> <sdb7>
/dev/md5 [raid1]: <sda5> <sdb5>
/dev/md6 [raid1]: <sda1> <sdb1>
-- Reading current status from /proc/mdstat
/dev/md1 [raid1]: <sdb2> <sda2> (ACTIVE)
/dev/md2 [raid1]: <sdb6> <sda6> (ACTIVE)
/dev/md3 [raid1]: <sdb3> <sda3> (ACTIVE)
+ /dev/md4 [raid1]: <sda7> <sdb7> (RECOVERY: 20.7%, 80.9min)
/dev/md5 [raid1]: <sdb5> <sda5> (ACTIVE)
/dev/md6 [raid1]: <sdb1> <sda1> (ACTIVE)
boot = /dev/sda, map = /boot/map.0801
Added 2.6.9-67.0.4.EL *
Added 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
Added 2.6.9-55.0.12.E
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Added linux
boot = /dev/sdb, map = /boot/map.0811
Added 2.6.9-67.0.4.EL *
Added 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
Added 2.6.9-55.0.12.E
Added 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL
Added 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL
Added linux
-- RAID status: OK
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Jim Dory
Engineering
City of Nome
PO Box 281
102 Division St.
Nome, AK 99762
907.443.6604
http://www.nomealaska.org
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