FC3 x86-64 freezes on SATA?!?!
Edward
edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Mon Feb 7 06:19:48 UTC 2005
Angelo Machils wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> Sometimes my box just 'freezes' on me, especially when I try some
> disk-intensive task (like rebuilding the database for slocate). It's
> probably a kernel panic (afterwards there are no entries in any log) and
> this also happens sometimes even at startup (most times at the 'checking
> for hardware' point). I get a message then about a kernel panic, not
> being able to sync and there is a mention about two SCSI modules who
> lock up (sorry, don't have the exact message, and here also there is
> nothing in the log, since it's a kernel panic). From searches on the
> internet I gather there must be some bad blocks on the disk, and
> smartctl could help, but since my SATA uses libata (the disk shows up as
> being a SCSI disk -- a /dev/sda) and this has no support in smartctl.
> What other util or solution could I try, because my box is even more
> unstable now then a win box at the moment.
> The entries in the websites show a little different error message, but
> the result is very similar. Very strange is that the only mention I find
> about such problems are always in a RAID environment, and I don't use
> RAID.....
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, because I would prefer not to
> have to re-install the box.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Angelo
>
Can't help you but it may help us if you tell us more about the SATA
controller/hard disks?
I may be a known hardware/driver issue?
Regards,
Ed.
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