hardware

Replacing a failing disk

March 8, 2009
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S.M.A.R.T. giving warnings http://manpages.songshu.org/manpages/lenny/en/man8/smartctl.8.html lately I've been receiving S.M.A.R.T. warnings by mail about one of the disks in a RAID10 array, the mails came in pairs like below. SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) detected on host: host This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: host DNS domain: cipar.net NIS domain: (none)...

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replacing disfuctioning Marvel ethernet controller

February 14, 2009
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There were problems in the past with the sky2 driver and it still seems to act up once in a while. to replace it and to have sure the new card is detected as eth0 i did the following afterwards since it was running fine the first two weeks or so. i disabled the...

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