Problem with my HD

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Guy Shanny

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Hello,
I have a problem...
Every some hours, I have a connection problem with my server...
When I do ping, I get "request timed out"...

My ISP says it's all ok.
I checked my /var/log/messages to see if there is any problem and I saw this:

Mar 25 23:37:14 server smartd[2948]: Device: /dev/hda, 78 Offline uncorrectable sectors

It says I have a problem in my hd (I have two hd...one 160GB and 80GB)...

Someone has more information about this problem?

Thanks a lot,
Guy.
 
Also the HD problem has nothing to do with your connection problem.
 
It may, if the file system is being corrupted so badly that the system freezes. That's why I suggest using a live distribution.
 
Its been my experience that even crashed servers will ping most of the time.
 
You are right, they often do. But I just had last week a freezed server (memory exhausted) that didn't, so it may be related.
 
emmm tillo you gave here a link about the solution for the problem, but I did not find any solution there...can you please direct me to the solution?

Oh...and thanks to all, tillo and floyd.

BTW, floyd, I think that there is a connection between the freezing server and the hd...in the ISP Graphs, all fine, and in my server's logs, I don't find something else that can cause those freezes.

Thanks a lot all...

(for google searchers, still, I don't have a solution...when I will have, I will post it here for you)
 
There is no fast&easy solution. You just have to follow the ext2/3 example in that page (given that you have an ext2/3 file system) to find and fix any bad block/sector.

I suggest to leave this work to someone capable (on site, because he may need to umount the disk and work on it through a live distribution), and to make a complete offsite backup.

This problem may also come from bad RAM or disk controller, so you may also try moving the disk to another machine and see if it's better.
There also is a chance that it's a software problem (controller driver failing somehow), but this is harder to find without trying to fix the hardware before.
 
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