Bug#335538: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: Hard drive locks up - DMA or Power Management problem?
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.
>
> Also, one of the firewalls had a different (3.5") drive in it before,
> that displayed similar symptoms. Thinking the disk was dying I swapped
> it, only to have the problem come back. (The 3.5" drive is being
> happily used by my brother now, with no problems whatsoever.)
>
> Also, 3 out of 3 is a bit high failure rate...
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.
--
Horms
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