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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Unix Tip: A SCSI mystery: Come and gone

By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com

On a late Friday evening, just as I was about to leave for home, one of the servers I manage suddenly started having what appeared to be serious disk problems. Its NFS clients were collecting "NFS server not responding still trying" errors. The system itself was unable to process share and unshare commands. My initial fear was that the system had suffered a disk crash and would have to be rebuilt from spare parts and backups before the staff's arrival on Monday morning.

The system was still running, but having serious problems running ordinary commands and the console was filling up with messages like these...

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