hardware

Replacing a failing disk

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)

The following warning/error [...]

replacing disfuctioning Marvel ethernet controller

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 first LAN [...]