On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:14:52PM +0000, Alan wrote: > > Both smart and the internal blade diagnostics say "everything is a-ok > > with the drive, there hasn't been any error ever except a bunch of > > corrected ECC ones, and no more than with a similar drive in another > > working blade". Hence my initial post. "Hardware error" is kinda > > imprecise, so I was wondering whether it was unexpected controller > > answer, detected transmission error, block write error, sector not > > found... Is there a way to have more information? > > Well the right place to look would indeed have been the SMART data > providing the drive didn't get into a state it couldn't update it. > Hardware error comes from the drive deciding something is wrong (or a > raid card faking it I guess). That covers everything from power > fluctuations and overheating through firmware consistency failures and > more. > > If you pull the drive and test it in another box does it show the same ?
Ok, inverted the disks, got a crash of the same blade with the new disk, so the problem is not the drive itself. Gonna try inverting two blades to check if it's the power supply connector/rail. OG. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/