[Techtalk] ide problem?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Maria,

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Maria Pinjanainen wrote:

>>> The md4 device is only a data device. So, why it is going to kill 
>>> whole system? Or is there any other hardware or software trouble?
>>
>> It should not actually panic and crash the whole system. I'd need to 
>> see the details of the panic to be sure what is happening there.
>
> I had no luck to see that screen that moment. It was my friend who saw 
> it. She told that there was a kernel panic, a call trace, stack pointer 
> dump and a code dump.

OK, you might try to reproduce the problem at a convenient time and take a 
digital photo of the screen to capture the dump.

>> I would recommend replacing the hard disk, however it MIGHT be possible 
>> to prolong its life by manually rewriting the bad sectors. To do this, 
>> remove it from /dev/md4 and add it back again. Otherwise, I'd recommend 
>> that you remove it until you can replace the hard disk.
>
> Hmm... you mean, that remove from the Raid array first and then replace 
> the drive?

Yes. You have no redundancy for data in that partition anyway, so you 
might as well remove it from /dev/md4.

Cheers, Chris.
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