Kevanf1 wrote:
On 14/07/05, Ben Rosenberg
wrote: Seems you may need to pay a little attention to the state of youur HDD's rather than slating it off , Those are some of the classic signs of failing drives .
So they've been failing for 5 months? Kinda odd that they would take almost half a year to fail. If they are failing then why has 9.3 run like a dream since install? I doubt it's the drives, maybe fs corruption but the drives are fine. I got 9.3 within days of it being available and installed it... haven't had an issue since.
Also, the largest issue was a bug in 9.2 that caused the servers to take 15-30 minutes to boot even if it was a warm reboot... the issue didn't occur with Redhat FC or Gentoo .. and 9.3 hasnt suffered from it either... 9.2 was just prone to issues. No worries. it's a distant memory for me.
It probably would be a sign normally of HDD failure. However, it would seem that quite a few people had 'issues' with 9.2 - myself included - so Ben is not alone. I personally found it slow (though nothing like Mandriva 2005 which I would never recommend to anybody) and had odd niggles. 9.3 is much faster and things works as they are supposed to. I do admit to running SuSE in a PC which really shouldn't be used for the purpose. Memory is fine at 256mb but the processor is a lowly AMD K6-2 500mhz and is lower that SuSE Novell spec'.
However, to be fair to 9.2, there are also an awful lot of people on this list who did not have one scrap of trouble with it. It's a strange old world :-)
9.2 upgrades were a problem with me, the fresh installs were flawless. Mandriva LE 2005 also AOK, I've had no issues with it on the one box (XP2200+/512M/Asrock mobo) 64+ days uptime so far, so I plan to upgrade the Mandrake 10.1 box to LE 2005 perhaps on Monday. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks