From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266219AbUGASoH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:44:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266222AbUGASoG (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:44:06 -0400 Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:11970 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266219AbUGASoA (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:44:00 -0400 From: "Nick Warne" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:43:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.4.26: IDE drives become unavailable randomly Cc: Andre Costa , ballen@gravity.phys.uwm.edu Message-ID: <40E4697E.28752.15EB61B8@localhost> In-reply-to: <20040701074933.722e40e4.costa@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> References: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21b) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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 Hi Andre, Sorry, I too am not subscribed to the list, and I read (and reply to) from: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel I totally overlooked CC'ing you. Anyway, new IDE cable did fix the box at work for me. Also I only used smartd AFTER the problem arose, not before, so it was not smartd that caused it. Regards, Nick -- "When you're chewing on life's gristle, Don't grumble, Give a whistle..."