On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya <swapnil.bhartiya@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/03/2012 10:38 PM, John Andersen wrote:
On 1/3/2012 1:26 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
Hi,
I am noting a new issues for the last two days. Some times my system goes slow and all I hear is HDD noise as if its trying to access data. The entire PC almost hangs and have to do a hard reboot.
PC configuration: Intel i5 8GB RAM 3 HDDs.
The same issue is on Ubuntu as well. One change that I did make to my system was replaced the stock CPU fan with CoolMaster 212 fan and changed BIOS settings to silent as it was running at full speed.
Swapnil
If two different Distros agree that your hard disk is failing then it is a good bet that your hard disk is failing.
It's a new HDD (I know it doesn't matter) but works fine under Windows. Ran the smart test two days ago and everything was clean.
Do what Cristian says and immediately take a backup if you have any data on that device that you need.
Data is all backed up. In fact tested the HDD under Windows and it was clean. Use this HDD only for Linux OS.
This is exactly the behavior you would expect when a drive has developed major problems from which the OS can't recover.
Tail /var/log/messages and you will probably see a flood of disk problems.
I can make any sense out of the log message. Can you help? Uploaded here:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B-ALfi5glBeCOGFmYTE4M2ItMmQ1MS00YmI5LWI0M2Y...
I don't see any disk errors reported in that log, so I don't think failing disks is your problem. Per your log you 3 1 TB plus WD drives: WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B0 WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1 WD10EALX-009BA0J I'm betting at least one of those has 4KB physical sectors and you have a misaligned partition on it that is used by openSUSE and Ubuntu, but not by Windows. Misalignment is a configuration issue, not a malfunction. So step 1 use hdparm to determine the physical sector sizes: ie. sudo /sbin/hdparm -I /dev/sda | head -25 should show the Sector sizes near the end of the output. Once we know if any of your drives have 4KB sectors, we can proceed from there. === option 2 WD Green drives are notorious for having a very aggressive power saving mode that parks the heads right in the middle of doing work. Try testing by using hdparm -B 255 and hdparm -B 254 If either of those solve your problem, then there is a package you can install to set that on boot. Can't think of the name offhand. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org