mcelog.service

lee lee at yun.yagibdah.de
Mon Jun 17 03:10:26 UTC 2013


"T.C. Hollingsworth" <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:25 PM, lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>> Where would I find a working computer which I could use and which has
>> the same or at least a compatible hardware RAID controller to connect
>> the drives to?
>
> In this situation I'd be much more concerned about all the data I lost
> since my last backup and I would be extremely annoyed that several
> perfectly good drives are now paperweights.  I wouldn't much care what
> exactly caused the machine to fail.  ;-)
>
> But really, this is an edge case.  Most people have some means of
> plugging their disks into another machine for forensic purposes, so
> this is useful to many.

That's assuming that the controller fails?  In that case, I'd have to
replace it, just like any other piece of broken hardware.  It's always
annoying when you have to do that.

How would running mcelog help me in this case?


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