It MIGHT be temperature related, but it failed at night when it is cooler here, whilst during the day when the heat here is ridiculous it came through fine, so I'm doubting that's it? But just in case, could you point me to a simple temperature monitor utility to monitor it throughout the day or something?
I don't know how many hours on the drive, it was given to me by a friend who really wasn't using it a lot (and hadn't used it in a year or so), and it is indeed the only drive in the bus. It is a Seagate ST380815AS 80GB disk and it does support SMART.
]]>If it is not the power or data cable, I would not trust it further than I could throw it. Even if it is a heat induced failure, I would dump it.
]]>I am very sure this has something to do with the disk, maybe it's telling me that it's a good time to get a new one, but I wanted to ask since this is somewhat bizarre.
I set up an older machine that I had, to act as a home server for some basic tasks. Everything went fine during installation, setting up, etc. But after two hours of up time, or in this particular case, after one day of up time, the daemons on the server become unresponsive and when I log in to ssh, most of the commands result in "-bash /usr/bin/*: Input/output error" (where * is the executable I called, of course). Only basic commands like ls and pwd work, and not every time.
The only difference this time, and I just ran into this whilst writing this post, are messages like the following on the server screen when I go take a look at the machine itself:
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 101821592
It's a bunch of those, different sectors.
Can I save the disk, or is it throw away time?
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