Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:01:26 -0800 (PST) | From | bridgette <> | Subject | Re: Possible IDE related crash on 2.4.18-rc4? |
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--- Jeff Lessem <Jeff.Lessem@Colorado.EDU> wrote: > I am having what seems to be some sort of IDE > related crash when I run > 2.4.18-rc4. The computer is a Dell Inspiron 5000e > laptop, which is a > PIII 600, 384MB ram, Intel PIIX4 IDE controller > (440BX), and an > IBM-DJSA-230 30GB laptop disk. The disk is > partitioned into reiserfs > (29GB) and swap (386MB). > > The machine will appear to work fine, but then the > disk will spindown > and immediately restart, then the drive light stays > on and the machine > is hung solid. It will not respond to SysRq, or > anything other than > holding the power button down until it turns off. > The last time the > disk restarted I noticed that it made similar > seeking noises to what > it makes when being powered on. It is NOT crashing > when making that > IBM click-boing noise. > > Obviously this may be a hardware related problem, > but IBM's drive > fitness test reports the drive to be OK, and I have > not had the > problem when using kernels <= 2.4.17 (even after > observing the problem > with 2.4.18). No IDE errors appear in the log > before the crash. > > The problem happens both when using noflushd and > with noflushd > disabled. The lockups have all occured during low > disk activity, but > 95% of the time disk activity is low, so this may > just be a > coincidence. > > I would be happy to privide any further information > that would be > useful in debugging this problem, but I am not sure > how to provide > useful diagnostics for such a total and sudden > lockup. > i don't know if this is the same...but i have the same dell inspiron 5000 for work and i was having this same problem...the guys from dell did all of the troubleshooting that i could bare...from having me remove my hardrive and cd which provided temporary fixes...in the end dell replaced my motherboard and i have not had any more problems.
> As long as I am posting IDE problems... On a > different computer, every > time the machine boots I get the errors > hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete > Error } > hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC > } > repeated 4 times. hdc is an IBM-DTLA-307045 > attached to an Intel > PIIX4 controller (440BX). IBM's drive fitness test > does not report > any errors, and I have no other errors or > difficulties in using the > drive. Should I be concerned? > > -- > Thanks, > Jeff Lessem. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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