On 4/17/07, Gebhardt Thomas <gebhardt@hrz.uni-marburg.de> wrote:
Hi, we have about 60 opteron servers running sarge amd64 with a 2.6.20.3 vanilla kernel (previously they were running 2.6.18.1; I installed the newer kernel in the hope that the problem would disappear). At a rate of about 1-2 per week the SATA disk in a server freezes and I have to reboot. Because of the statistical nature of the effect (and since smartctl -a doesn't display any errors) I conclude that this is not a hardware issue but a software problem. Any idea how to narrow down the problem?
look at http://www.debianhelp.org/node/6931 -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com