From: Alan <alan@ufies.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dma_intr errors on heavy writes -- cause for concern?
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:22:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061101072214.GY2043@ufies.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611010232.38059.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:32:36AM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 November 2006 02:08, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
> > During certain times I my server under goes heavy disc writes. When this
> > happen I get the following error. Should I be concerned? Does anyone know
> > of any resources that I can read up on that will explain that all of this
> > mean?
>
> yes, you should. Errors like this have usually one of this causes:
>
> disk is dying
> cable is defective
> PSU drops voltages under load
> controller is defective
> ram is defective
> board is just junk
>
> >From most likely to least likely.
Seconded.... dma_intr errors are never good, pretty much each time I've
seen them they've preceeded a drive failure. From what I remember it's
basically the disk failing and then going out of DMA mode to try to
recover and failing (or something like that). Short answer is start
shopping for new disks if you like your data to be safe :) Or at
minimal do a backup of anything important on there ASAP.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-01 1:08 [gentoo-user] dma_intr errors on heavy writes -- cause for concern? Richard Broersma Jr
2006-11-01 1:32 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-11-01 7:22 ` Alan [this message]
2006-11-01 18:09 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-11-01 4:08 ` Richard Fish
2006-11-01 6:14 ` Richard Broersma Jr
2006-11-01 8:16 ` Richard Fish
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