A server went down and would not come back up remotely so I went to the data center and rebooted it with a monitor connected. Dell 600SC running FreeBSD 4.10. The server gave a few beeps and when I looked up the code on dell.com, it said that means bad memory. I pulled the memory and rebooted again.
The server would not load and started complaining about disk problems (uncorrectable READ_DMA ...). I went into single user mode and ran fsck, but it would not complete without saying I had to run it again and then it would either repeat that or just lock up where I had to reboot.
1. Is it normal for RAM and a hard drive to fail at the exact same time?
2. I tried installing the disk on another machine as a secondary disk to see if I could mount it as a partition and at least recover some of the data, but it won't let me mount until I run fsck and it won't complete an fsck.
Is there any other way (other than sending it off to a data recovery firm) to read the data or another fsck type function to try and fix the errors?
Thanks for any help!
The server would not load and started complaining about disk problems (uncorrectable READ_DMA ...). I went into single user mode and ran fsck, but it would not complete without saying I had to run it again and then it would either repeat that or just lock up where I had to reboot.
1. Is it normal for RAM and a hard drive to fail at the exact same time?
2. I tried installing the disk on another machine as a secondary disk to see if I could mount it as a partition and at least recover some of the data, but it won't let me mount until I run fsck and it won't complete an fsck.
Is there any other way (other than sending it off to a data recovery firm) to read the data or another fsck type function to try and fix the errors?
Thanks for any help!