[mythtv-users] Off topic: Input/Output Error

[Kelly Reed Schuerman]

It turned out much easier to find, once I got home I found another error was
plastered all over the console telling me exactly which drive had the
problem.  At least I hope that it is the drive which was brand new end of
November and not the controller card.

Thanks,

Sherm   <><

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Marshall [mailto:tommy at home.tig-grr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:16 PM
To: Kelly Reed Schuerman
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Off topic: Input/Output Error

Have you checked /var/log/syslog for error messages?

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:14:23PM -0600, Kelly Reed Schuerman wrote:
> I know this is off topic but I am hoping somebody here can help.  I 
> have been running Myth for a year or so now and the WAF and KAF is 
> very high, even though it's been torn down and rebuilt several times.
> 
> I recently started having some hardware errors that I cannot figure out.
> 
> I have a Promise Ultra 100 IDE Controller card with 3 75GB UATA100 
> 7200RPM drives attached.  Over the weekend my son (19 months old) 
> found the power button on the front of my Frontend/Backend system to 
> be entertaining and not once, not twice but three times (because I 
> wasn't smart enough to move the system after the first time) powered off
the system.
> 
> My drives were setup with one 15GB partition for the system and the 
> remaining space in a linear raid configuration formatted ext3.  The 
> system came back up without a problem after all three powerdowns, but 
> later that day I rebooted the system and the Raid would not restart.  
> I tried several different things to restore the filesystem which all 
> resulted in a completely locked system.
> 
> I decided to start from scratch with Fedora Core since I would 
> eventually have to upgrade my RH9 anyhow.  I had everything up and 
> running and now 16 hours later I am getting a "read error, 
> input/output failed" and the system basically becomes unusable as it 
> won't run any commands.  I can't even reboot the system from a 
> terminal window. Sorry I can't post the exact errors as I can no longer
remotely connect to the system from work.
> 
> This seems to be a harddrive error, but I can not figure out which 
> drive of the three or possibly the IDE controller that is causing the 
> problem.  Is there anyway for me to figure out which harddrive is causing
the problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sherm   <><
> 

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