FC3 x86-64 freezes on SATA?!?!

Angelo Machils angelus at sangreal.demon.nl
Mon Feb 7 09:52:00 UTC 2005


Edward schreef:

>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.
>

Hi there!

Hope this is enough information:
[angelo at solaris HPPA_Debian]# lspci|grep IDE
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:05.0 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] RAID bus 
controller 180 SATA/PATA  [SiS] (rev 01)
[angelo at solaris HPPA_Debian]# smartctl -i /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.33 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 
Bruce AllenHome page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Device: ATA      Maxtor 6Y160M0   Version: YAR5

SATA disks accessed via libata are not currently supported by
smartmontools. When libata is given an ATA pass-thru ioctl() then an
additional '-d libata' device type will be added to smartmontools.

Thanks for any help/assistance/help,
Angelo




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