-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brandon Carl wrote:

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Had a machine with similar problems. Turned out in the end to be due in part to a hard drive that was experiencing some data failure, and possibly (the juries out on this) a failed tape unit. (As it is possible the data corruption issues on the drive was causing problems on with the tape unit). BTW I still have the drive on the system and it is still mounted as a data drive for data recovery purposes but now it is no longer under load I have experienced no problems.

I would load S.M.A.R.T and use it to monitor the status of the drives. A problem may not show up immediately but you have a good chance of getting something meaningful reported eventually (it took two months in my case). (There are other tools which monitor the status of processors etc but what is available varies according to chipsets).

How do I "load" S.M.A.R.T? I have dual 250Gb drives mirrored with a software RAID 1.

S.M.A.R.T. is in the smartmontoools RPM. It uses an industry standard system to do low level disk device monitoring, I personally do not use raid but for software raid I would expect to have some physical dev definitions with which to do the monitoring, I am replying to you and list as I would hope that someone can give some practical pointers to deploying this in the software RAID scenario. BTW since discovering this widget through this list I would regard its deployment as a must... its a rather nifty tool.. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGx0XVasN0sSnLmgIRAowQAJ93eVytvEoSPTVDBqHmlljPSgUK4QCg7jY4 cHiYAKnt18ipjUWd7hTB9i0= =uUXe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org