On 14 July 2010 14:50, Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Thank you for the detail.
> From what I see, the hardware is supported on SL 5.5.
> From the description of the sounds and symptoms, I believe you are having
> hardware problems, particularly the hard drive.
> I would look in
> /var/log/messages
> and see if there is anything there dealing with your hard drives.
> I don't have an example right now of what to look for, maybe someone else
> has some log examples of hard drives going bad.
>
> Troy

Assuming the smartd service is running, then the first step would be:

grep -i smart /var/log/messages | more

Alan.