Re: 2.4.22pre8 hangs too (Re: 2.4.21-jam1 solid hangs)

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:05:07 +0300
Ville Herva <vherva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:57:37PM +0300, you [Ville Herva] wrote:
> > [...]
> > So I copied the rootfs and everything else from the scsi disk to the ide
> > disk (just barely had enough space), and took all the scsi disk partitions
> > away from fstab. After reboot, I have been unable to lock it up with fsx
> > (scsi disk is not accessed at all), but it will take several weeks before
> > I'm confident that the lock up is cured.
> 
> And indeed it did lock even though the scsi disk is not used at all. It just
> took weeks. 
> 
> At the time no heavy IO was going on afaict (but there might have been some
> io.)
> 
> I'm completely out of ideas here. What the heck is the culprit...? Perhaps a
> faulty motherboard?

Hm, after my experiences I would advise you to save time and headache and try
to replace everything but the ide disk at once. This is an easy and fast action
and gives you a chance to tilt any form of hardware error.

Regards,
Stephan
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