[oclug]drive errors

[Milan Budimirovic]

On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 10:21, Dana Webber wrote:
> Remember the old rule that 50% of the time it's a cable problem.
> 
> I had an error with a drive last week. A few days later it died. I reseated 
> the IDE cable and power conector and all is fine now.
> 
> > > Mike's post reminded me that I hadn't checked the logs on one of my
> > > boxes (the only one with SCSI) for quite a while.  Lo and behold, this
> > > turned up:
> > >
> > > Dec 28 18:30:50 zora kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun

The error message indicated that the SCSI driver could not see a sector
on one of the drives. It could be faulty cabling or termination but I
doubt it. The easy way to find out is to run "badblocks" on that
partition and see what happens.