** Reply to message from Steve Madonna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 23 Feb 2003 
08:42:15 -0800


> I figured it probably wasn't a graphics problem as you said this machine is a 
> "server". You might want to search google for other people having problems 
> with your same motherboard. Have you tried that yet? It's worth a shot...
> 
> Turning off UDMA is a good idea. If you suspect hard-disk probs
> 
> What about NIS or NFS? Are you running either of those? I've got dailiy 
> problems of NFS mounts going stale... if logins or shell commands are 
> authenticated via NIS or actually run from a different system mounted via NFS 
> systems will effectively hang. Usually it's AMD (the automount daemon) 
> causing the problem. All I can do when this happens is telnet in as root (not 
> very secure, I know) and reboot the machine. (That works because root is a 
> local account... doesn't rely on NIS or the automounter).

In my case, the freezes had nothing to do with NFS or automount since those services 
were not running. As with Stefan, I could ping the box but trying to ssh in would not 
even give a prompt back. Only resort was to hit the reset switch. A bad interaction 
with kernel code and Maxtor UDMA is starting to bubble to the top, methinks. I would 
be a good watchdog for this one given my array of Maxtor disks:

# cat /proc/ide/hda/model
FUJITSU MPC3043AT
# cat /proc/ide/hdc/model
Maxtor 5T030H3
# cat /proc/ide/hde/model
MAXTOR 6L040J2
# cat /proc/ide/hdg/model
Maxtor 52049H4

$ cat /etc/mtab | grep hd
/dev/hda2 / ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hde2 /home ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/backup ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hde1 /usr ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hdg5 /var/www ext3 rw 0 0

Note /usr is on Maxtor. Will monitor.

jb

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