Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-06 Thread Dave
On 5 Jun 2011 at 16:55, Michael Powell wrote: per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: [snip] Power supplies do fail occasionally, and not always in obvious ways such as failing to turn on at all. The output voltages may be a little too high or too low, or they may be correct but with excessive

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-06 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] PS: I don't suppose anyone knows a real good simple blow by blow total newby dialog, as to how to realiably and correctly create and setup Jails on FreeBSD 8.0? All the man pages I've found so far, are way over my head. Good Reference material admittedly, but no good as an

[direct] Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-05 Thread Dave
... (Therapy!) Oh, the grass needs cutting, and I'm now also under instruction to change the bed, when the cat's finished sleeping on it!!! Best Regards. Dave B. On 4 Jun 2011 at 21:35, Kaya Saman wrote: Subject:Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-05 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/05/2011 03:48 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Did you apply any updates shortly before it started to fail? No updates! I did however, install unrar through ports. Intuitively, that seems unlikely to have triggered the problem.

Re: [direct] Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-05 Thread Kaya Saman
, and I'm now also under instruction to change the bed, when the cat's finished sleeping on it!!! Best Regards. Dave B. On 4 Jun 2011 at 21:35, Kaya Saman wrote: Subject:Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error [...] Hmmm Hard drives do not like heat! Check the PSU

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-05 Thread Michael Powell
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: [snip] Power supplies do fail occasionally, and not always in obvious ways such as failing to turn on at all. The output voltages may be a little too high or too low, or they may be correct but with excessive ripple or electrical noise; or the supply may be just

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
Many thanks for the response! On 06/04/2011 02:00 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: I have an ancient pre-HT PIV machine with500MB RAM. ... Everything was running fine until round about 2 days ago when the system started locking up on me? ... is there

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-04 Thread Dave
On 3 Jun 2011 at 15:09, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, I have an ancient pre-HT PIV machine with 500MB RAM. The system has an extra PCI-SATA card installed so I can make use of modern high capacity drives. Everything was running fine until round about 2 days ago when the system started

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-04 Thread Dave
On 4 Jun 2011 at 10:52, Kaya Saman wrote: Many thanks for the response! On 06/04/2011 02:00 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: I have an ancient pre-HT PIV machine with500MB RAM. ... Everything was running fine until round about 2 days ago

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] Hmmm Hard drives do not like heat! Check the PSU voltages with a meter, for accuracy and ripple. Failing SMPS's can do all sorts of odd things. Capacitor problems. Been there done that. They can be changed for very low cost, other than your time. DaveB You might guess by know, I

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-04 Thread perryh
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Did you apply any updates shortly before it started to fail? No updates! I did however, install unrar through ports. Intuitively, that seems unlikely to have triggered the problem. I remember on other boards that went on me in the past with capacitor

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-03 Thread perryh
Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: I have an ancient pre-HT PIV machine with 500MB RAM. ... Everything was running fine until round about 2 days ago when the system started locking up on me? ... is there anyway to fix the kernel error quickly? Did you apply any updates shortly before it