Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?

2005-10-31 Thread George B.
On 27/10/05, Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, that does sound like fair resoning, though I should > say that almost always these kind of errors show up faulty hardware. > In this case, its probably a bug. Don't get me wrong, I think may well be faulty hardware, but a general fault rather t

Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?

2005-10-31 Thread Horms
Is there any chance that #336103 is related to this? http:://bugs.debian.org/336103 -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?

2005-11-01 Thread George B.
On 01/11/05, Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any chance that #336103 is related to this? > > http://bugs.debian.org/336103 Hmm, don't think so. In my case I had no trouble turning DMA on (in fact, I disabled it yesterday with hdparm just to see if it would make any difference - it will

Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?

2005-11-01 Thread George B.
P.S. I could try unloading the ide-generic module etc. if you think that's a good idea.

Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?

2005-11-01 Thread Horms
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:24:16AM +, George B. wrote: > P.S. I could try unloading the ide-generic module etc. if you think > that's a good idea. I think its certainly worth a try, though its probably not going to make much difference. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?

2005-11-20 Thread George B.
I think I finally fixed the problem by installing the apmd package. :-\ The problem was, I am guessing, that the hard drive went to sleep at some random time (despite it being explicitly told not to in the BIOS) and regardless of the disk activity (so even my 15 min dd cronjob did not fix it) and

Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?

2005-10-24 Thread George B.
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 wi

Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?

2005-10-26 Thread Horms
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 >

Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?

2005-10-26 Thread George B.
> > Your disks are failing, get new ones if you value your data. I'm afraid I will have to disagree with you on this one. All of the disks were brand new and the problem started showing up after a few days/weeks after assembly. Also, one of the firewalls had a different (3.5") drive in it before,

Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?

2005-10-26 Thread Horms
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 10:42:46PM +0100, George B. wrote: > > > > Your disks are failing, get new ones if you value your data. > > I'm afraid I will have to disagree with you on this one. All of the > disks were brand new and the problem started showing up after a few > days/weeks after assembly.

Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?

2006-09-05 Thread George B.
On 04/09/06, Eito Tamura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi George, I am having the same problem as you did. So installing ampd package didn't fix the problem? Just those crappy HDD problem? Upgrading kernel might fix this problem? Hello, The problem is still there, although it does not occur ver

Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?

2006-03-16 Thread George B.
Just to let you know that the 'fix' did not work. :-( The hard drives will still randomly go to sleep and not wake up. What's more, even a sysrq forced reboot does not wake the drive up - only a cold boot works! The end result is that we are gradually replacing these crappy disks in our firewalls