Hello,
I had the following problems a few months ago: the server I rent gets stuck every now and then.
Running any command that requires write access to the disk results in
"Input/output error". The server is running RedHat 8.0 (kernel 2.4.20).
Some of them asked for logs but unfortunately I had none at this point since the server
could not write anything :-(
This problem happened again a few days ago and, this time, I found some relevant logs:
in dmesg:
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,3)) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO failure
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 264056
in var/log/messages:
Oct 24 19:55:26 ws33 kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Oct 24 19:55:43 ws33 kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
Oct 24 19:55:43 ws33 kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
Oct 24 19:55:43 ws33 kernel: hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting
Oct 24 19:55:43 ws33 kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataReque
st }
Oct 24 19:55:43 ws33 kernel:
Oct 24 19:55:43 ws33 kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Oct 24 20:38:18 ws33 kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 24 20:38:18 ws33 kernel:
Oct 24 20:38:53 ws33 kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
Oct 24 20:38:53 ws33 kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Oct 24 20:38:53 ws33 kernel:
Oct 24 20:38:53 ws33 kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Oct 24 20:39:22 ws33 kernel: ide0: reset: success
Oct 24 20:39:56 ws33 kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 24 20:39:56 ws33 kernel:
Oct 24 20:40:29 ws33 kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
Oct 24 23:01:39 ws33 kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Oct 24 23:01:39 ws33 kernel:
Oct 24 23:02:09 ws33 syslogd: /var/log/secure: Input/output error
Oct 24 23:02:09 ws33 kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
Oct 24 23:02:09 ws33 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 34255
Oct 24 23:02:09 ws33 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 34255
Oct 24 23:02:09 ws33 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 264336
Oct 24 23:02:09 ws33 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 264344
Oct 24 23:02:09 ws33 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 1056816
Oct 24 23:02:09 ws33 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 1180872
Oct 24 23:02:09 ws33 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 1229928
Oct 24 23:02:09 ws33 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 5242960
Oct 24 23:02:09 ws33 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 6029360
[...]
I am not familiar with hardware related failures but this looks like a hard disk failure or a driver
problem. My hosting provider still claims that it is due to the applications (apache ...) I installed.
Any thoughts ?
Thanks for your help,
Tom
