Re: 2.4.26: IDE drives become unavailable randomly

[Bruce Allen]

> I was getting this problem, and advice from smartmontools people was 
> to clean out the box and reseat all cables etc.  Seemed to work for 
> me on the box at work with this DMA timeout issue - BTW, always 
> happened at idle, like 2:15am in the middle of the night etc.
> 
> Reference: 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8660397
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4908273&forum_i
> d=12495

An additional reference. See the entry that starts 'System freezes under
heavy load" in:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/smartmontools/sm5/WARNINGS?view=markup

Cheers,
	Bruce

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