Fedora Core 5 Issues

[Joachim Backes]

Andy Green wrote:
> Roger wrote:
>> Has anyone had issues with Fedora Core 5 64bit version. I tried to use 
>> it for one of my production servers and i had endless issues trying to 
>> get it to work, first i had the segfaults caused by some of my 
>> processes. Then the SATA drivers started giving errors and eventually 
>> my hard drive started failing etc. I believe in Fedora and dumped FC5 for 
> 
> I used FC5 on x86_64 for several months completely happily.  Then a 
> couple of months ago that box killed first one SATA drive (this is on 
> nVidia SATA driver/controller) and then after one week, its replacement 
> SATA drive.  By 'killed' I mean I came in one morning and the drive is 
> repeatedly resetting itself on a 10-or-so second cycle, will not boot, 
> etc.  I abandoned the whole PC and moved my life into a laptop.
> 
> I have three ideas what may have happened:
> 
>  - Power supply problem: the 12V became weak and unstable and the drive 
> kept "powering up".  Problem with believing this is that there were few 
> devices in the box, and there had been no changes to the roster of 
> devices in there for months
> 
>  - Driver problems: on a later kernel, changes in the driver cause it to 
> try to reset the drive and there are problems with the logic that it 
> will keep doing so until it kills the drive, perhaps because the drive 
> firmware does not always handle soft resets properly (on a WD and a 
> Seagate though?)
> 
>  - Karmic burden from a past life caught up with me and it is just random
> 
> Please describe what happened with your dead drive.
> 
> -Andy
> 


HAving installed FC5/x86_64 on some Athlon XP 3... without problem. Additionally having installed 
FC5/x86_64 on a sun fire V40z with 8 cpus (no sata). The only problem I have is that on the sun 
fire the video card  "Trident Microsystems Blade 3D PCI/AGP" can't be driven in 1280x1024/millions 
of colors mode.

Being happy too.

Regards

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