On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 21:24, Daniel Barclay <dan...@fgm.com> wrote:
> Ralph, > > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Ralph Katz: >> >>> Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to >>> syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? >>> >> >> Another option: it might be a kernel problem. I don't remember the >> specifics anymore, but on one of my systems I had similar errors. After >> replacing the disk and still getting these errors, I found hints that >> the kernel might be at fault. I then installed a newer kernel from >> backports.org and the problems went away. >> > > What processor and chipset does your motherboard use? > > Do you get > > Does changing your IDE/ATA controllers from DMA mode to PIO > mode stop the message? > > > (I had similar problems (got similar log message) with a dual-processor > AMD Athlon MP board. Apparently, the AMD chipset apparently had some > bug, the Linux didn't work around that particular bug, and the kernel's > IDE DMA code (or maybe filesystem code) wasn't very robust--it didn't > retry an operation that failed because of a detected DMA timeout, > and it didn't even detect that the operation failed and stop (panic > or something) before things (disk and filesystem state) became > inconsistent.) > > > Daniel > -- > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c07d027.9020...@fgm.com > > Install the smartmontools for hard disk. This could tell you in case any real problems with your harddisk. smartctl -a /dev/hda (for ide hardisk /dev/hda) smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda (for sata harddisk /dev/sda) change your device names with the one in your case.
