Hello All,
We recently had nasty problems with one of our major servers running Centos
5.2 64-bit; based on the error logs the problem stems from a "defective" IDE
drive.
First we tried replacing the mobo; worked for a while, but ultimately we
ended up with the same problem.
Then we tried replacing the IDE drive; same problem
Then we replaced everything -- the drive, the mobo, the RAID array; still
ended up with the same problem.
All the while we were getting DriveSeekComplete errors in the logs; the
server also froze whenever there was very heavy disk I/O on the IDE drive.
We finally resorted to using CentOS 4.7; the problem went away. We noticed
that the IDE device was detected as sda, so we suspect the problem may be with
the IDE driver that 5.2 is using.
Is there a way of forcing the kernel to use a certain driver such that all
devices are addressed as sd*? We may need to use 5.2 soon, and we really
wouldn't want to relive our personal nightmare before Christmas.
tia
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