On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:37:52PM +0100, George B. wrote: > Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 > Version: 2.6.8-16 > Severity: important > > Hello, > > I've been having the same problem on 3 firewall boxes: after a certain > amount of time (days, weeks) the hard drives will either go into read > only mode or lock up for good (until a reboot) with I/O error messages. > > I will report about this this machine, as the others have not been > rebooted yet, so they don't work properly yet (although they still > forward/filter packets.) > > All the firewalls use Seagate ST92011A (20GB 2.5") drives and are based > on the VIA chipsets (can't confirm if these are identical as one of the > firewalls uses a different motherboard and is currently dead > (input/output error on any command) until the next reboot. > > This was a problem when I tried the latest 2.4 kernel in Sarge, then it > seemed to go away when I switched to 2.6.8, but is still there, just > takes much longer for the fault to occur. > > I have a feeling it is a Power Management problem, with the drive not > waking up from deep sleep (this was proven experimentally with the 2.4 > kernel.) At the moment I am testing the hdparm -B 255 'solution'. > Otherwise it's the 15 min ls -l / > /dev/null cron job :-S > > The kernel is from APT the modules loaded are by hotplug - no custom > stuff. powermgmt-base is installed, but that's about it.
Your disks are failing, get new ones if you value your data. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]