On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:40:59 +0200, Chadley Wilson <chadley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 15 November 2004 13:30, Paul Tomblin wrote: > > I woke up this morning to find my computer extremely sluggish. One > > terminal window was still responding a bit, so I did an "uptime" only > > to find the load average over 230! I'll investigate and report back. > Oh !!! OK Ok, it appears that I'm getting more errors on my second IDE controller, even though the problematic /dev/hdc4 wasn't mounted. /dev/hdc1 was mounted, and it was ok earlier. But around 2:00, I suddenly started to get Nov 15 02:05:26 allhats kernel: hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: hdc: DMA timeout error Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: hdc: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy } Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: hdc: DMA disabled Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: hdd: DMA disabled Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: ide1: reset: success Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdc: lost interrupt Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdc: multwrite_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady Se ekComplete DataRequest Error } Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdc: multwrite_intr: error=0x00 { } Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdd: status error: error=0x00 Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy } Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdd: status timeout: error=0x80LastFailedSense 0 Now this hardware was all working perfectly for the last couple of years, and suddenly started throwing these errors after "upgrading" to Fedora Core 3 and the new 2.6 kernel. I'm deeply suspicious. I think I'm going to download a RedHat 9 ISO and boot from that, and exercise that drive to see if it gets errors under 9. -- "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Teddy Roosevelt