[plug] server problem; possible faulty controller card.

[Ben Jensz]

Have you considered that it may in fact be a dodgy hard disk causing the 
issues?

I've seen on several occasions when an IDE hard disk dies, that it spews 
random crap down the IDE channel preventing proper communication with 
other drive(s) on the same channel and/or on the same controller.

This can obviously cause all sorts of erratic behaviour...


/ Ben


Jon Miller wrote:

>Has anyone run into the following error messages? I posted this before and checked everything everyone suggested:
>I've checked memory (replace them); fans are okay, system is not overheating, etc.
>When the server boots there are error messages associated with the Promise Fast track S150 TX2 Plus SATA Controller.  A series of IOCTRL errors appears.  I've noticed that certain commands do not work but only the basic ones do (mainly alias commands do not work).
>Users cannot get e-mail as the postfix/mailmonitor will not load.  This has been going on for 10 days and I need to get this fixed.
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