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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: zine el abidine Hamid <zine46@yahoo.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Detecting I/O error and Halting System
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:36:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1143560163.17522.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060328150712.85169.qmail@web30602.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Maw, 2006-03-28 at 17:07 +0200, zine el abidine Hamid wrote:
> I don't think that it's a HDD problem nor a cable
> problem because the servers are new. We have tried

New. Thats another word for "untested" I believe 8)

> How can I determine the problem?

I would consult the hardware vendor

> I want to add that the HDD seems to be disconnected
> (the BIOS can't find any drive for boot) after a
> simple reset. We must switch off the servers to get
> them work again.

Thats strongly indicating a hardware problem.

> (http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lkmpg/) but how can I
> shutdown Linux from inside a module...? 

See the softdog driver for an example.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-28 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-27 14:55 zine el abidine Hamid
2006-03-27 15:24 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-03-27 16:55 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-28 15:07   ` zine el abidine Hamid
2006-03-28 15:36     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-03-30 12:28       ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-04-02 22:51         ` zine el abidine Hamid
2006-04-02 22:31       ` zine el abidine Hamid
2006-03-28 17:55     ` Gene Heskett
2006-03-30  8:14       ` zine el abidine Hamid

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