TerraNova 66 wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2008-06-16 at 21:37 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
The disk port is not responding, so the kernel decides to resets it. During that time, nothing can be read from the disk, and all processes needing i/o are stopped, frozen.
Having seen this situation in the past on one or two of my machines, I'm going on record saying its the drive, not the port.
It is possible. If the OP can test with another disk, that would clinch it. I wonder if an SMART test would say anything? Perhaps with the manufacturer disk test utility.
At the moment, I can't get another disk, although that may have to change... I was wondering, though, if there were a test I could run, perhaps chkdsk. You mention a SMART test. I'll have to go look for that.
I'll add two things to the mix now: I'm using the 915resolution utility on startup as the laptop has an Intel 935 graphics chip. Matt Archer mentioned a possible graphics problem, so I think that's worth checking. The second thing is that when the computer freezes the clock continues and I can move the mouse pointer around the screen. Nothing else can be done, though.
In that case, it's not the graphics system, and your initial suspicion of disk problems is more likely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org