Hi,
Sometime, it is the hardware which is faulty.
Under warranty, get a replacement.
Cheers
patrick
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:15:35 +0300
Ji Do <jido (at mark) k.ro> wrote:
>
> I use CentOS 4.2(Final)/Bluequartz Installation CD v3.5 with kernel
> 2.6.9-34.EL, Adaptec hardware raid controller ATA 2400A (BIOS 1.92), RAID
> 1, and 2 brandnew 300 GB harddrives.
>
> I have tested that configuration on 2 different servers with different
> Adaptec controllers and different harddrives. I also tested different
> RAM's on the motherboard and also on the Adaptec controllers.
>
> If i save files on the server (wget or ftp or sftp) the RAID will crash -->
> "Status: Impacted" at the second harddrive
>
> I cannot login, neither at the console nor ssh or BQ GUI after this. But i
> can ping and portscan the server, everything seems OK.
> Only a cold reboot and a "Rebuild RAID" (Ctrl-A menu of Adaptec BIOS) will
> bring back the server to live.
>
> Sometimes i got a read-only filesystem. Sometimes i got the error
>
> ext3-fs error (device i2o/hda3) in start_transaction journal has aborted
>
> LogWatch sends me this here:
>
> WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
> /dev/i2o/hda error: Failure communi...: 4 Time(s)
> Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hd...: 33 Time(s)
> EXT3-fs error (device i2o/hda7...: 1 Time(s)
> end_request: I/O error, dev i2o/hda, se...: 4 Time(s)
> lost page write due to I/O error on i2o/hda7...: 33 Time(s)
>
> and this too:
>
> Mar 24 04:15:48 end_request: I/O error, dev i2o/hda, sector 390697107
> Mar 24 04:15:48 end_request: I/O error, dev i2o/hda, sector 390697371
> Mar 24 04:15:48 end_request: I/O error, dev i2o/hda, sector 390697851
> Mar 24 04:15:48 end_request: I/O error, dev i2o/hda, sector 390698579
>
> Here are the /var/log/messages:
>
> Mar 24 04:15:48 bq kernel: /dev/i2o/hda error: Failure communicating to
> device.
> Mar 24 04:15:48 bq kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev i2o/hda, sector
> 390697107
> Mar 24 04:15:48 bq kernel: Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hda7, logical
> block 45664293
> Mar 24 04:15:48 bq kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on i2o/hda7
>
>
> I use the same controller on another machine with Bluequartz/FC1 since more
> than 1 year and i didnt had any problems like that. I have 120 GB RAID 1 on
> that machine.
>
> Does anybody have a solution? Maybe another RAID controller? Which one? Or
> a kernel
> patch?
>
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