Fedora Core 5 Issues
Peter Reed
mrdeadworry at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 00:05:35 UTC 2006
Andy Green wrote:
> Roger wrote:
>
>> Jul 16 19:50:18 asterix kernel: ata1: port reset, p_is 0 is 0 pis 0
>> cmd 4c017 tf 7f ss 0 se 0
>
> Hm there it seems to be resetting the device
>
>> starts to just die and then i guess switches to read-only mode and i
>> cant even use ssh to get into the machine, such that i always reset
>> it, but when i do it just runs for 4 days max and then just dies, do
>> you reckon it to be the hard drive that is now weak or what.
>
> I read some time ago there is some design tradeoff for the bearings on
> hard drives, they can be optimized for running a long time or for
> stopping and starting like on a laptop drive. Maybe that is something
> to do with it.
>
> Your problem does sound about the same as what I experienced, also on
> x86_64, mine was an nVidia chipset DFI Lanparty board.
>
>> I have since replaced that server with a smaller machine running on
>> FC3 with but uses a lot less memory and does not complain at all.
>
> My box was also up 24hrs being a mailserver. I replaced it with an
> embedded ARM board that draws 1.5W and a USB flash pen. I wrote an
> article about it here: http://warmcat.com/_wp/?p=5 But of course it
> just does my mail, not 1000 users.
>
>> Do you reckon it could be the SATA Drivers which kill the hard drives!
>
> Sorry I don't have any answers, I dropped that machine after the second
> drive was killed and it is sitting in the corner looking lonely. But
> then I would think more people would be hitting this problem if it was
> simply a driver issue. Maybe it requires extended uptimes on the box in
> addition?
>
> -Andy
>
I am running an AMD 3800 x2 without any problems on the newest kernel on
and gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 without any problems. I have two IDE drives and
two SATA drives and everything is fine. So I have to say there is no
problem with the x86_64 kernels. I have been happy so far except for the
32 bit only stuff like flash.
Peter
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