On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 09:05 +0200, LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:
Here some HW details: 1. A 5 year old system that had win2K on it for 3 years and since then SuSE 9.3 and all the following. Here the problem occur with OpenSUSE
5 year old system = possible harddrive beyond its life expectancy.
10.2. It has an ASUS mobo with ATI Radion graphic card. 2. A 2 year old system only had SuSE 10.0 that had the problem and now has WinXP without any problems. It's a Gigabyte mobo with ATI Radion graphic card. I noticed that intensive file access by Evolution caused a systrem lockup many times. 3. The latest 1 year old system showed the problem mainly with SUSE 10.0 and now with OpenSUSE 10.2. An identical system has SuSE 10.1, where the problem has till now not occured. It is a Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLi mobo with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS.
Even newer systems come with a one year warranty on IDE harddrives. I've seen new drives fail after only a couple of months of use includinf SCSI drives which generally have a longer life expectancy.
The difference between the lockups of the SUSE 10.0 and OpenSUSE 10.2 is that with 10.0 it did not allow any access to the system at all; a complete lockdown - dead - only reset got it unlocked. The OpenSUSE 10.2 reports RO FS problems by all applications. The system can be rebooted or shut down normally.
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information from /var/log/messages about what is happening when the filesystem goes RO
I noticed on two different systems this sort of messages in /var/logs/messages:
Jun 2 22:15:03 kakalapap kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Jun 2 22:15:03 kakalapap kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Jun 2 22:15:03 kakalapap kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xef
I only see these errors in relation to my DVD/CD drive (hda). Could this possibly relate to your CD drive? If not I would suspect a bad cable. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org