On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 12:51 -0500, marklapier@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hey All, > I'm having a vexing problem with FC8 losing connection to one of my > hard drives. I've had it drop out in a matter of a few minutes. This > time it was working for several days before it quit. > > I have two drives on my system. One SATA drive has the system > installed on it. The other, plugged into the IDE header has data files > on it. The SATA drive runs fine. The IDE drive will eventually quit > working. I can cd onto the drive as long as I don't try to access > something that is not already in the disk cache. When I try to access > the drive I get this error: > > [mlapier@mushroom mlapier]$ cd /sdb1 > [mlapier@mushroom sdb1]$ cd mlapier > [mlapier@mushroom mlapier]$ cd mail > [mlapier@mushroom mail]$ cd MYDIR > [mlapier@mushroom MYDIR]$ ls > ls: reading directory .: Input/output error > > [mlapier@mushroom piano]$ cd /sdb2 > [mlapier@mushroom sdb2]$ cd piano > [mlapier@mushroom piano]$ ls > ls: reading directory .: Input/output error > > There are two partitions mounted thus: > drwxrwxrwx 16 root users 4096 2007-12-29 12:56 sdb1 > drwxrwxrwx 49 root users 4096 2008-01-06 22:48 sdb2 > > [mlapier@mushroom etc]$ cat fstab > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults > 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/sdb1 /sdb1 ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/sdb2 /sdb2 ext2 defaults 1 2 > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults > 0 0 > > [mlapier@mushroom etc]$ uname -a > Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:03:13 EST > 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I've been running Linux for many years on many boxes but I've never > encountered a situation like this. The only way I've found to restore > operation is a to reboot. > > Anyone got any clues?? ---- I think the clues are likely to be found in errors in /var/log/messages or dmesg Craig
