Jettbot
September 14th, 2011, 12:11 PM
I'm evaluating CentOS 6 vs Ubuntu 11.04 for my server + desktop needs by booting off of a thumbdrive on a box currently running Win 2008 R2.
When I boot into CentOS desktop, an error pops up immediately indicating that one of the SATA drives in a Windows software RAID has alot of errors and may fail soon. I suspected this to be true as I built a crappy test software RAID out of a bunch of spares I had lying around just to play with. So I'm really happy CentOS warns me right away. But when I boot into Ubuntu, I do not get any warning and if I go into disk util, it says that that specific drive has some errors but nothing serious.
Why the difference and how to I get Ubuntu to err on the side of safety like CentOS is doing?
CentOS 6 disk util is 2.30.1.
Ubuntu 11.04 disk util is 2.32.1.
Is it just a difference in versions or is there an error threshold setting or alarm setting I need to tweak?
Thanks!
When I boot into CentOS desktop, an error pops up immediately indicating that one of the SATA drives in a Windows software RAID has alot of errors and may fail soon. I suspected this to be true as I built a crappy test software RAID out of a bunch of spares I had lying around just to play with. So I'm really happy CentOS warns me right away. But when I boot into Ubuntu, I do not get any warning and if I go into disk util, it says that that specific drive has some errors but nothing serious.
Why the difference and how to I get Ubuntu to err on the side of safety like CentOS is doing?
CentOS 6 disk util is 2.30.1.
Ubuntu 11.04 disk util is 2.32.1.
Is it just a difference in versions or is there an error threshold setting or alarm setting I need to tweak?
Thanks!