[Gloucs] Help diagnose crash please? Suspected hard drive failure, but which drive?

[Iain Calder]

On 30/01/2008, Andrew Oakley <andrew at aoakley.com> wrote:
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> Can someone help me diagnose the following crash please?
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> http://aoakley.com/misc/crash-20080130.jpg
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> I strongly suspect that this means at least one of my four hard drives
> has failed, but the question is, if so which one? I have two pairs of
> RAID1 mirrors, both with ext3 filesystems (hence the kjournald errors, I
> think).
>
> Upon reboot, everything either works fine, or I see the hda1/hdc1 mirror
> being rebuilt in /proc/mdstat , so my suspicion is on either hda or hdc.
> The system then fails randomly in a similar manner in the next minutes
> or hours.



You could try using smartmon to see if it will give you any more disk health
information, although I've never had much luck with it myself.

Iain