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From: Ralph Katz on 3 Jun 2010 19:30 On 06/03/2010 05:53 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Ralph Katz: >> On 06/03/2010 01:45 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was: >>> >>> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03) >> Where would I find it? > > Just run lspci. > >> You think those errors could come from the >> controller? > > Yes and no. As far as I understand, it was the kernel having > difficulties with that controller. But as I wrote, I don't know the > specifics anymore. I just remember that I blamed the disk at first, but > a replacement drive showed the same symptoms. > > You can easily rule this out by adding backports.org to your > sources.list and trying their kernel. > > J. ralph(a)spike ~$ lspci |grep IDE 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 12) I had not used that command in maybe 5 years, heh. You get complacent with stable. Thanks for the kernel suggestion. Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C083948.4090400(a)rcn.com
From: Ralph Katz on 18 Jun 2010 21:30
-- On 03 Jun 2010 19:22:48 -0400, Message-id: <4C083948.4090400(a)rcn.com> I wrote -- On 06/03/2010 05:53 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Ralph Katz: >> On 06/03/2010 01:45 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> Which IDE controller? The controller I had problems with was: >>> >>> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03) >> You think those errors could come from the >> controller? > > Yes and no. As far as I understand, it was the kernel having > difficulties with that controller. But as I wrote, I don't know the > specifics anymore. I just remember that I blamed the disk at first, but > a replacement drive showed the same symptoms. > > You can easily rule this out by adding backports.org to your > sources.list and trying their kernel. > > J. ralph(a)spike ~$ lspci |grep IDE 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 12) I had not used that command in maybe 5 years, heh. You get complacent with stable. Thanks for the kernel suggestion. Ralph -- end of last post -- [Apologies for bad paste and maybe bad threading; having difficulty migrating mail.] Jochen, the kernel upgrade to 2.6.32-bpo.5-686 seems to have fixed the problem! No system hang, no constant disk error messages, only this: > zgrep -i attrib /var/log/syslog* |grep -v Temp > /var/log/syslog:Jun 18 08:30:31 spike smartd[1990]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Usag > e Attribute: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count changed from 186 to 185 > /var/log/syslog:Jun 18 14:00:32 spike smartd[1990]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Pref > ailure Attribute: 7 Seek_Error_Rate changed from 200 to 100 > /var/log/syslog.1:Jun 17 21:08:35 spike smartd[1985]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART Pr > efailure Attribute: 7 Seek_Error_Rate changed from 100 to 200 > /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Jun 14 15:27:14 spike smartd[1940]: Device: /dev/sda, SMART > Prefailure Attribute: 7 Seek_Error_Rate changed from 200 to 100 > Thank you again for your suggestion. Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C1C1B40.50309(a)rcn.com |