Re: [tlug] Potentially Dying Hard Disk Questions

["Zev Blut" <zb@example.com>]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 19:12:27 +0200, Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>  
wrote:

> Strange noises are scary. You probably should get a spare disk before it
> dies.

I've done that :-)

> For DMA timeouts, there is a kernel block. They are not neccesarily as
> evil (can be caused by bad cabeling) and a bus reset usually helps. I get
> these errors from IDE cdrom drives as well sometimes.

How do you do a bus reset?
Is it the "hdparm -w" command?


> I had a DMA timeout error a while ago on a HD that brought down a disk in
> my raid array, and it turned out that it was a cable error (bad contact).

OK thanks, I will use another cable to see if that might change things.

Cheers,
Zev