lca

Thomas Pornin (bip@orion.ens.fr)
Thu, 15 May 1997 11:56:54 +0200 (CEST)


Hello,

I found a strange behaviour on my UDB under linux 2.0.30; it is not a
problem, but rather funny, and I am interested in knowing what exactly
happens.

Whenever I bump the table on which the UDB is, my syslog is filled with
a few dozens of this messages:

lca: machine check (la=0xfffffc0000208490,pc=0xfffffc000039b000)
Unknown errorlog size 64

(and I also hear the hard disk a lot)

I suppose this is due to the hard disk, which detected the vibration and
recalibrates itself; it then emits this messages, and linux is smart enough
to catch them. Am I correct ?

--Thomas Pornin