I had this happening too me and traced it to a piece of 128mb Pc100
Sdram.. Have you added memory recently? I might also note that
the ram I faulted worked perfectly under other OS's just didn't work
with Linux I changed it out and it now works great...
Scott
> > I am beginning to think that the disk may be going bad but badblocks
> > e2fsck -c mke2fs -c all report no bad blocks. this is an IDE disk.
> > is there any other way to find out if the disk is at fault or is this
> > the kernel? I am running 2.2.13 on a different machine and have been
> > since it came out and have had no problems with it, except for the
> > constant filetype errors that show up on the /var filesystem but they
> > seem to be minor and not hurt anything that i can see.
>
> Has anything changed recently on your system? (Is the disk new?
> Have you enabled bus-mastering recently (e.g., reconfigured or upgraded
> the kernel)?)
>
> I got similar-sounding extreme disk corruption (at least three times)
after
> adding a new disk drive, but only when running a program of mine that
created
> a lot of small files and directories.
>
> My kernel log (/var/log/message.log) had error like this:
>
> ...
> Nov 23 06:32:36 dsb kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> Nov 23 06:32:36 dsb kernel: hdb: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
> Nov 23 06:32:36 dsb kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> Nov 23 06:32:36 dsb kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
> Nov 23 06:32:36 dsb kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> Nov 23 06:32:36 dsb kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
> Nov 23 06:32:36 dsb kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x00 { }
> Nov 23 06:32:36 dsb kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command
> Nov 23 06:32:36 dsb kernel: ide0: reset: success
> ...
>
>
> I was running kernel 2.0.36, and found some IDE-related patches
> for 2.0.38, so I upgraded to 2.0.38 and applied the patches. I
> haven't had any trouble since.
>
>
> Is 2.2.13 the newest 2.2.x kernel? If not, you might upgrade to
> the newest. If so, look for the directory
> pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick on www.kernel.org or mirrors.
> It looks like you might want the file ide.2.2.13.19991111.patch.gz.
>
> (I have a copy at the moment, so if you can't find it, I can e-mail it
> to you.)
>
>
>
> Daniel
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