Re: Problem: IDE data corruption with VIA chipsets on 2.4.20-19.8+others

[Francois Romieu]

Eric Bickle <ebickle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
[...]
> About one week later, the machine started behaving badly. Random crashes,
> problems, etc. A very unstable server. We suspected it was the IDE. We built
> another server using a different brand of motherboard and hard-drives and
> launched the server. One or two weeks later - same thing - major problems,
> crashes. In fact, we've launched about 4 different hardware configurations,
> some raid, some non-raid, different hard-drive brands, different versions of
> Lotus Domino. There is only one thing in common - they all crash, they all
> run RedHat Linux, and they all use IDE.

Overheat ?

What do smartctl -a and sensors output at regular interval say ?

Regards

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Ueimor
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