[plug] Eek.. help!

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

On 7/7/06, Daniel Pearson <daniel at flashware.net> wrote:
>
>  Ah, great - thanks. Been stressed out about the server just dieing, didn't
> even take notice of the timestamp!
>
>
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>  Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> On 7/7/06, Tomasz Grzegurzko <tomasz89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/7/06, Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions) <daniel at flashware.net>
> wrote:
>  >
>  >  I just had my server die, it was saying I/O error.
>  >
>  >  Have rebooted, and having a look in /var/log/messages I notice a lot of
> the
>  > following:
>  >  Jul  3 01:27:25 fs01 -- MARK --
>  >  Jul  3 01:47:26 fs01 -- MARK --
>  >  Jul  3 02:07:26 fs01 -- MARK --
>  >  Jul  3 02:27:26 fs01 -- MARK --
>  >  Jul  3 02:47:27 fs01 -- MARK --
>  >  Jul  3 03:07:27 fs01 -- MARK --
>  >  Jul  3 03:27:28 fs01 -- MARK --
>  >  Jul  3 03:47:28 fs01 -- MARK --
>  >  Jul  3 04:07:28 fs01 -- MARK --
>  >  Jul  3 04:27:29 fs01 -- MARK --
>  >  Jul  3 04:47:29 fs01 -- MARK --
>  >  Jul  3 05:07:30 fs01 -- MARK --
>  >
>  >  I have googled, but have not been able to find out what they mean - any
>  > ideas?
>  >
>  >  Cheers
>  >
>  > --
>  >
>  >  Daniel Pearson
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>  >
>  They're normal. Every 30 minutes in your case, your syslog is making
>  this entry.. You can think of it as a heartbeat or an "I'm alive!"
>  message from your system...
>
>  Tomasz
>
>  Sorry 20 minutes! Wrong key..
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No DMA errors are a good thing -- either DMA has been disabled and
you're running in PIO mode smoothly, or it is enabled and you're
running smoothly with DMA on now.

Tomasz