[mdlug] Old Sun equipment

[Michael ORourke]

Aaron,

Do you still have any of that old Sun equipment?
What model was the "cubes"?

-Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Kulkis" <akulkis3 at hotpop.com>
To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Hard drive issue I/O error


> Mathew Enders wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 12:20 -0400, Bob Dion wrote:
>>
>>> I would back the drive up, unmount it and run fschk.
>>> If you get more io errors with fschk I would say the drive is toast.
>>>
>>> You may also want to concider installing smartctl & smartd on this
>>> system.
>>>
>>>
>> I unmounted the 2 partitions on the drive and then attempted to fsck
>> them and here is the error I get.  If I reboot all is well until some
>> future point when the rsync happens again
>>
>> ARDVARC:~# fsck /staffbak
>> fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
>> e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
>> fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
>> while trying to open /dev/hdg1
>> Could this be a zero-length partition?
>> ARDVARC:~# fsck /stdntbak
>> fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
>> e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
>> fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
>> while trying to open /dev/hdg2
>> Could this be a zero-length partition?
>> ARDVARC:~#
>>
>> Then when attemptinf to remount them I get this error
>>
>> ARDVARC:~# mount /staffbak
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdg1,
>>        missing codepage or other error
>>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>        dmesg | tail  or so
>>
>> ARDVARC:~# mount /stdntbak
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdg2,
>>        missing codepage or other error
>>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>        dmesg | tail  or so
>>
>> ARDVARC:~#
>>
>> Here is the end of dmesg
>>
>> end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 65
>> EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
>> end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 65
>> EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
>> end_request: I/O error, dev hdg, sector 488343872
>> EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
>> ARDVARC:~#
>>
>
> Replace the drive... pronto.
>
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