Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Strange DMA-errors and system hang with SMART (was: ...and system hang with Promise 20268) | From | Sebastian <> | Date | Wed, 02 Jun 2004 21:00:39 +0200 |
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Am So, den 23.05.2004 schrieb Bruce Allen um 14:46: > Hi Sebastian, > > Sorry it's taken me so long to reply. My usual googling of smartmontools > didn't turn this up because you changed the subject line and started a new > thread.
Sorry for my late reply, too. I had been out of country and away from Internet.
> I hadn't realized until now that the drive is an IBM GXP60. > > smartctl is *supposed* to print a warning message for these drives, to > tell users to look at http://www.geocities.com/dtla_update/index.html#rel > for pointers to updated firmware for this drive! What firmware version do > you have?
Yes, the warning is there. However, there never had been a problem with it for years until I upgraded the kernel. I probably should have paid more attention to that warning... The problem is that most of the links are broken on the page that you refer to.
I am pretty sure now that the DMA-error is related to smart as the server run without problems for a couple of weeks until someone started smartd again by mistake. Three days later the box froze again just after 1 am.
> Meanwhile, what firmware version do you have? I suggest you upgrade it -- > this may fix the problem. The final firmware with the SMART fixes seems > to be A46A.
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Thanks for the infos,
Sebastian
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