From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 06:13:26 EDT
It sounds like this HDD was not spinning up properly. Once it was spinning,
it would continue to work OK, so no errors were generated. If it didn't
spin up, the only errors would be in the VG, because the hdisk wasn't
available: no I/O would take place, so there wouldn't be any failures.
In this particular case, I don't think there's anything which could be done
to detect the problem earlier.
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Faisal Qasim [mailto:faisalq@cyber.net.pk]
> Sent: 22 April 2003 05:26
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: HDD down without any error
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> Recently we faced following scenario:
>
> - Sometimes during boot up filesystem not mounted
> - Restart and everything is normal
>
> Later what comes up was that a HDD was giving intermittent
> problem, causing
> non-availability of VG. Ultimately that HDD gone bad and data
> was to be
> restored.
>
> My worry is that HDD was giving problem and VG was not available, but
> 'errpt' was perfectly fine, no error was generated. Was that
> the normal
> behavour? How can such errors be tracked?
>
> We are using AIX 4.3.3 on F80.
>
> Hope I was able to communicate my question properly. I will
> be grateful for
> your help.
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