mounted hard disc gave "device not configured"
Rob .
rob_mcr at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 14 13:30:32 PDT 2003
(apologies in advance if this silly hotmail account adds any HTML..)
Hi all,
I have a 4.8-RELEASE server running stock Generic kernal as a NFS and samba
file server. It's got a pile of standard IDE discs in it, 40 to 120Gb each,
using two third party PCI IDE cards.
Within the last couple of weeks I have now had three hard disc go down -
symptoms are basically that any access to the directories hosted on that
drive gives a "device not configured" error. Indeed anything trying to
access the drive gives the same error. even umount gives the same error...
a quick grep of the logs turns up:
Oct 5 03:03:29 luggage /kernel: ad3: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -
resett
ing
Oct 5 03:03:29 luggage /kernel: ata1: resetting devices ..
Oct 5 03:03:29 luggage /kernel: ad3: removed from configuration
Oct 5 03:03:29 luggage /kernel: done
Firsttly, and most important, is there anything I can do to restore the
drive? A reboot didn't ... There's not much in the top level directory of
each drive, but loads in sub-folders. They are not accessed much, but I
don't particularly want to lose the data. One of them is my backup drive,
too...
What would you recommend to avoid problems in the future? I think it's time
to build a new server anyway (this is only an AMD K6 2/500) - Would it be
best to run a RAID filesystem, and would 1+0 be better than RAID5 for
reslilence on future failures? Is this reliable on cheap IDE drives?
Thanks in advance,
Rob.
luggage# df -h /dev/ad3s1e
df: /dev/ad3s1e: Device not configured
luggage# uname -a
FreeBSD luggage.internal.irrelevant.com 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0:
Thu Apr 3 10:53:38 GMT 2003
root at freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
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