Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:08:04 +0100 (CET) | From | Tomasz Rola <> | Subject | Re: Kernel or failing harddisc? |
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 Nov 2004 11:07, Alan Cox wrote: > [snip] > > > > It could be anything. An interrupt went walkies which could easily be > > the driver, thermals, cabling, phase of the moon, drive,... If those are > > the only logged lines then the drive hasn't reported any problems back. > > > > Failed maxtors normally make it very clear they died - both in smart > > data (usually) and by spewing drive level errors. > > > > Alan > > Thanks Alan, I'll look into it. Since I've not received any SMART warnings, > I'll just assume the drive is fine and it's something else.
Maybe motherboard? I had once a chipset (an older one, via mvp3 I believe), that gave me strange errors until I disabled DMA with hdparm. Besides this, open your case and check cables. Who knows, maybe this will cure your system.
bye T.
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