From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 25 05:11:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA02969 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 05:11:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA02961 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 05:11:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10907 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 07:11:28 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from proot) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199811251311.HAA10907@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Is this going bad? To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG (Questions FreeBSD) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 07:11:28 -0600 (CST) X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I've been having some problems with my server lately. It crashes in the middle of the night with nothing in messages or lastcomm of significants. The console is dark and won't come back. However, I have seen these messages occasionally: horton kernel log messages: > wd2: interrupt timeout: > wd2: status 50 error 1 wd2 is my amanda hold disk, so it isn't accessed except at night during backups. It crashed last Saturday morning 03:55. And on Monday, I found that amanda hadn't completed so I flushed to tape. I wasn't at the console but a short time later, the machine crashed again. My guess is that the disk is spun down, and it's not coming back up gracefully, all the time. This is 2.2.7-Stable, cvsupped last week, on a Compaq DeskPro (133Mhz) with 64Meg. The disk in question is a 2.5 gig IDE. Another issue is that this machine won't reboot. It just hangs. I have to power it off and back on. I have another Deskpro that reboots fine. This is obviously a hardware problem, or BIOS. Any pearls of wisdom on this. Apart from getting rid of Compaq? I'm already scheming on how to do that. Thanks, Paul. -- It is morally wrong to discriminate by disproportionate tax levies against those who aquire material possessions at an abnormal rate, whether as a result of application, luck, or inheritance. -William F. Buckley, Jr. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message