I have spurios hangs of one of my systems, running 9.1, stock + YOU updates. When the system hangs, it hangs dead hard and a reset-button reboot is the only way out. The system itself resides on a Compaq disk array, and there's an IDE disk that's used for storing VM-data for VMware GSX. Often the system hangs when I'm having system load on the VMware virtual machines, so I guess it's related to the IDE disk. I see in my /var/log/messages lots of these: Feb 14 11:18:18 ragata kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Feb 14 11:18:18 ragata kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Feb 14 11:18:18 ragata kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xef The IDE disk is a Western Digital WD1000BB-50CCB0, system chipset is VIA KT600. Ideas please? Anders.
On Monday 14 February 2005 11:50, Anders Norrbring wrote:
I guess it's related to the IDE disk. I see in my /var/log/messages lots of these:
Feb 14 11:18:18 ragata kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Feb 14 11:18:18 ragata kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Feb 14 11:18:18 ragata kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xef
The IDE disk is a Western Digital WD1000BB-50CCB0, system chipset is VIA KT600.
Ideas please?
Do a good backup before it fails completely. Then get another drive. Last time I had drive_seek errors, the drive went dead about 3 days later. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 9.2 Kernel 2.6.8 KDE 3.3.0 Kmail 1.7.1 For Mondo/Mindi backup support go to http://www.mikenjane.net/~mike 4:38pm up 23:32, 3 users, load average: 2.03, 2.11, 2.16
Anders Norrbring wrote:
The IDE disk is a Western Digital WD1000BB-50CCB0, system chipset is VIA KT600. Ideas please?
get smartd up and running. It'll tell you when the drive is due for replacement. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/freetrial - sign up for your free 30-day trial now!
The IDE disk is a Western Digital WD1000BB-50CCB0, system chipset is VIA KT600. Ideas please?
get smartd up and running. It'll tell you when the drive is due for replacement.
Well, since the drive is absolutely new, it's been running for about 12 hours, it shouldn't be failing. Anyway, after some hours of googling I came up with some hints on that reiserfs with some 2.6 kernels are having real problems with some IDE drives and their cache memory. So, I reformatted with ext3 and the problem is gone.. Anders.
Well, i see the same errors on my latitude d800 notebook (with a not origina 60 gb Samsung HD). And on a Dimension 4550. Oh, and before that i could see them on the hitachi 40gb notebook disk i had on a dell latitude c840. to me, looks like an issue with kernel. smartd did not give anything (both on linux and MS Windows XP). Any Suggestion Alle 20:56, lunedì 14 febbraio 2005, Anders Norrbring ha scritto:
The IDE disk is a Western Digital WD1000BB-50CCB0, system chipset is VIA KT600. Ideas please?
get smartd up and running. It'll tell you when the drive is due for replacement.
Well, since the drive is absolutely new, it's been running for about 12 hours, it shouldn't be failing.
Anyway, after some hours of googling I came up with some hints on that reiserfs with some 2.6 kernels are having real problems with some IDE drives and their cache memory. So, I reformatted with ext3 and the problem is gone..
Anders.
Anders Norrbring wrote:
The IDE disk is a Western Digital WD1000BB-50CCB0, system chipset is VIA KT600. Ideas please? reminds me of a discussion on this list last year. Someone posted this: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12078 Read all the comments. I too have WD drives. Last year I tried to upgrade to SuSE 9.1 and had trouble so I had to go back to SuSE 9.0.
get smartd up and running. It'll tell you when the drive is due for replacement. I might try that
Well, since the drive is absolutely new, it's been running for about 12 hours, it shouldn't be failing. Merle Haggard sang "we'll all be drinkin' that free Bubble Up and eatin' that rainbow stew". What is my point? Just that the expected or ideal doesn't always happen.
Anyway, after some hours of googling I came up with some hints on that reiserfs with some 2.6 kernels are having real problems with some IDE drives and their cache memory. So, I reformatted with ext3 and the problem is gone.. interesting. I wonder if my system would have worked with 9.1 if I had done that?
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