SCSI device sdb error and unable to read partition table

[Pipeops]

Hi There,

I am having an issue when booting up my server. All services seem to work fine but i get errrors that look like this:

SCSI device sdb: 2097151 512-byte hdwr sectors (1074 MB)
sdb: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
unable to read partition table

How can i find out what this device is?

Thanks in advance,

-I

 

[Kozusnik]

That should be your second hard drive either SCSI or Serial ATA use sdx (replace x with a=first drive, b=second, and so on). Sounds like that drive may be going bad. Do you know if you can read it? Is it mounted?

"df", "fdisk -l", and "more /etc/fstab" may shed some more light.

Mark

mark@mark-desktop:~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1            301709904 185534308 100849588  65% /
varrun                 1037408       320   1037088   1% /var/run
varlock                1037408         0   1037408   0% /var/lock
udev                   1037408       100   1037308   1% /dev
devshm                 1037408         0   1037408   0% /dev/shm
lrm                    1037408     34696   1002712   4% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile
/dev/sdb1            480719056 212839112 243460744  47% /backup

mark@mark-desktop:~$ more /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /backup ext3 nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

 

[Annihilannic]

This is almost ceratinly the virtual media provided by a Dell Remote Administration Card (DRAC), i.e. the facility that allows you to upload a floppy or ISO image so you can remotely perform rescue CD boots or firmware updates.

You can safely ignore that message.

Annihilannic.