[ILUG] hard disk stress testing

[conor at conorwynne.com]

>> I've been getting intermittent errors on a hard disk in a PowerEdge
>> 2650.
>> The errors are of the type "Ext3fs: (device sda5) in start_transaction:
>> Journal has aborted" when this has happened, the machine becomes
>> unresponsive and whenever I try and get to pass commands to the machine,
>> I
>> get the following, "scsi (0:0): rejection i/o to offline device"
>>
> Richard,
>
> Have a look at this thread:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/ext3-users/2003-March/msg00035.html
>
> It may have some information for you, it is a long thread.

I just checked, and the PE2650 has a perc3D/i - adaptec chipset
There are known isues with certain firmwares and drivers.

Can you check the bugzilla report. Just search for "aacraid" and you will
see it.

Conor.