From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264412AbUGAKoj (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 06:44:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264419AbUGAKoj (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 06:44:39 -0400 Received: from duchamp.tecgraf.puc-rio.br ([139.82.85.1]:55557 "EHLO tecgraf.puc-rio.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264412AbUGAKoh (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 06:44:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 07:49:33 -0300 From: Andre Costa To: Bruce Allen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tomstdenis@yahoo.com, nick@ukfsn.org Subject: Re: 2.4.26: IDE drives become unavailable randomly Message-Id: <20040701074933.722e40e4.costa@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> In-Reply-To: References: <40E2E7EF.15243.10093E4E@localhost> Organization: TecGraf X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (please cc me on any replies, I am not subscribed to this list) On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 04:48:30 -0500 (CDT) Bruce Allen wrote: > > I was getting this problem, and advice from smartmontools people was > > to clean out the box and reseat all cables etc. Seemed to work for > > me on the box at work with this DMA timeout issue - BTW, always > > happened at idle, like 2:15am in the middle of the night etc. > > > > Reference: > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8660397 > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4908273&forum_i > > d=12495 > > An additional reference. See the entry that starts 'System freezes > under heavy load" in: > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/smartmontools/sm5/WARNINGS?view=markup > > Cheers, > Bruce Thks, folks, I wouldn't really suspect of bad cables/PSU, this was an eye-opener. I have just opened the box and reseated the 80-wire IDE cable to my hda device, and I will consider replacing it, just in case. The PSU is brand new, 450W -- although it could be bad quality, I will try to check this out. BTW: Nick, I missed your msg because you didn't cc me. My hda also usually gets disconnected at early hours in the morning, as you pointed out. I arrived today to work and it had happened again =/ Last entry on/var/log/messages was around 1:30am, and it was about a NFS mount that had expired. Best, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa (costa@tecgraf.puc-rio.br)