Re: 2.4.26: IDE drives become unavailable randomly

[Andre Costa]

(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 <ballen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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