[plug] server problem; possible faulty controller card.

[Jon Miller]

I had given that some thought, it would appear to me that if it was the disk(s) that each time a write or read would happen there would be either some error or the users would be have some difficulty in reading or writing to the drives.  Same if it was a nic, there would be either a slow down on the network or jabbering on the network.
This error happens as the controller card is loaded, from there it keeps on working.  There is a chance that it may be the 2nd drive in the RAID.  I may break the RAID to see if it makes any differences.

Thanks

Jon

>>> plug at jensz.id.au 9:29:25 am 17/03/2006 >>>
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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