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Old 03-24-2008, 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by monk View Post
Your hard disk is going to die, have you tried to run smartctl command?

Tutorial : How do I test if my Linux server SCSI / SATA hard disk going bad?
how come with RHEL and RH derivatives? i get that error/warning? when i replace the OS with debian/slack or BSD's i never got it again?
BAD REDHAT!
try upgrading the firmware and also disable smart in BIOS and in init.rd scripts. damn smart. it just eats my CPU and things and is a real crap. sorry no smart please, i preffer to be dumb. yes from 300 GiB to 2.1 GiB hdd maxtor, same issue, replaced with debian/slack. problem solved. HDD & BIOS firmwares, upgrade'em all!
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