I am facing nothing of this sort of problems on RH 7.1. Intel 810 based M/B with 40GB HDD. My / is below 1024 cylinder, while both the /var and /home are over this limit.
Kapil Sethi System Administrator BharatConnect Ltd. Ph: 011-6430987 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mithun Bhattacharya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "general linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "linux programmers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Linux-India" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd]: Rhat 7.2 on 40GB hdd > Manish K Arya wrote: > > hi > > i have installed Rhat 7.2 on 40 GB hdd.i m facing problems like > > 1)at reboot and halt sometimes system is not able to umount partitions > > 2)at many times i face kernel errors (like page fault,OOPs etc) > > > > does any can tell me is there something wrong with hdd. > > i have heard that 40GB hdds give problems > > > Hard disk wise all Seagate IDE hard disk available in Nehru Place, Delhi > in the recent years are crap :). Other than that hard disk failures > would have symptoms like files dissapearing mysteriously, DMA error's on > the console and error messages in the system log. > > Kernel oops probably are due to faulty hardware other than hard disk > like memory, motherboard, smps fan not cooling sufficiently ??? Umount > not working is probably because of some network filesystem becoming > unavailable. I assume you dont get all the messages in one go !! Hope > you dont have a VIA motherboard - the kernel crashes while shuting down > on those beasts :(. > > Just a note this post is not really for LIP unless you are experimenting > with kernel modules which could have caused the oops. > > > > Mithun > > ================================================ > To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header > Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > ================================================= > ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
