The hard drive crash threw me offline a few days due to strange problems with software raids, Xen and acpi. Turns out that using the latest Xen kernel from debian testing branch on a software raid only works of you don’t set “acpi=off” as a kernel parameter. If acpi is turned off, the script “scripts/local-top/mdadm” [...]
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dead hard drive
It seems that one of the hard drives in my server died last night. Thanks to the raid no data is lost, but the server will be offline shortly this week (tuesday morning probably) to replace the faulty drive with a fresh new one.
