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

[Phil Ironside]

Hi

I have found smartctl to be very good for diagnostics.

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:49:28 +0000
"Iain Calder" <iain.calder at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30/01/2008, Andrew Oakley <andrew at aoakley.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Can someone help me diagnose the following crash please?
> >
> > http://aoakley.com/misc/crash-20080130.jpg
> >
> > 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
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