Have you tried moving the drive in the cases? I had one drive that sort of did the same thing. it was caused by to much heat. the fan in the power supply went and this drive was close to it. Bought new supply and move the drive away from the power supply and it still works years later.
I have a machine that uses an Adaptec 2940U SCSI controller and 3 SCSI drives. The first SCSI drive is a 2.1GB drive that contains Linux. The other 2 drives are Seagate 9GB drives that are used for filesystem storage.
The first of the Seagate drives seems to just "go away" after some period of time. The messages log just shows I/O errors that result from the drive no longer being available.
If I reboot the machine, I hear the drive spinning up, and it will become operational again.
It seems that the drive is taking itself offline, but I don't know why.
The machine is a Pentium 266 with 128MB RAM running SuSE 7.1 distro with the 2.4.4-4GB kernel. The SCSI driver is not the new aix-7xxx driver, but the old driver because I had problems with the new driver allowing me to partition and format the drives reliably.
Questions:
1. Is there a way to bring the drive back on-line without rebooting the machine?
2. What tools can I use to discover the cause of the problem?
3. As soon as I can get the drive to stay online long enough to make a tape backup of its contents I will replace the drive. Is this an indication that the drive is going bad?
Thanks for any help!
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