What Happens Before A Disk Fails?

2/15/99


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Table of Contents

What Happens Before A Disk Fails?

Motivation

Just Before a Disk Fails...

* Which Logs on What System?

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The Tertiary Disk Architecture

The Tertiary Disk Architecture

The Tertiary Disk Architecture

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Example of A Log Message

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What kind of messages are generated?

Outline

m0: SCSI Time Outs+Recovered Errors

m0: SCSI Time Outs+Recovered Errors

m0: SCSI Time Outs+Recovered Errors

m0: SCSI Time Outs+Recovered Errors

Can we predict a disk failure?

m11: SCSI Time Outs

m11: SCSI Time Outs + Hardware Failures

Can we predict a disk failure?

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Are the other connected devices in the system affected in any way?

m2: SCSI Bus 2 Parity Errors

m2: SCSI Bus 2 Parity Errors

Can We Predict Other Kinds of Failures?

Can We Distinguish a Failing Disk From a Non-Failing Disk?

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Total Disk & SCSI Errors Per Machine

Summary and Conclusion

Back Up Slides

m0: SCSI Time Outs

Author: Randi Thomas

Email: randit@cs.berkeley.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~randit

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