On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:03, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Were there no I/O error messages reported from the device driver,
> block, buffer or pagecache layer? Generally everyone like to have
> a shout as one flies past.
Nope. Odd, eh?
Only log item of relevance was
(scsi0:A:0:0): Locking max tag count at 64
which I get every now and then anyhow.
> It would be useful to give the IO system a bit of a thrashing,
> to narrow the problem down. Just a `cat /dev/sda[n] > /dev/null'
> would suit.
2.4 survived this fine. Looking like its not the disk, then. I will
try this in 2.5 once I backup some data and finish some work.
I should note I have been running this machine with 2.5 for about a
month now with no problems and my development machines have been 2.5
since, uh, 2.5.1 but they are all IDE not SCSI.
> Bottom line: dunno.
Me neither. Quite an anomaly.
Robert Love
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