Daniel, I'm not sure why you are seeing disk I/O errors, but here are a few tips.
1) Why not use a CF card for storage in the net5501, SandDisk CF cards (Ultra II's are good) are know to work well in the net5501. 2GB or 4GB is usually plenty for typical usage. 2) If you installed AstLinux by dd'ing the flash image to a mechanical hard drive, that could be a problem. The disk geometry we create for the flash image has been shown to work with a wide variety of flash medium, (CF cards, SATA flash modules, mSATA SSD's, USB flash drives, etc.), but a mechanical hard drive may not like the disk geometry we use for the flash image. I personally only use flash storage on all my AstLinux systems. Flash that uses SLC (Single-Level Cell) is best if given a choice. Lonnie On Nov 16, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Daniel Pedrosa Morillo wrote: > Hi people, > > There is a serious problem with the build of Astlinux 0.7.8 optimized > for Soekris net5501. > > I have two soekris net5501 with mainboards version 100506. > > I have tried both of them with Astlinux, using only the SATA port for storage. > > Both computers fail giving thousands of errors like these: > > Jul 11 19:06:11 pbx user.err kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdb2, > logical block 0 > Jul 11 19:06:11 pbx user.warn kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on hdb2 > Jul 11 19:06:11 pbx user.err kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, > sector 5914600 > Jul 11 19:06:11 pbx user.err kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, > sector 5767120 > Jul 11 19:06:11 pbx user.err kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, > sector 262080 > > I've tried different hard drives (seagate, western digital) but I > always get the same problem. The hard disks are fine and healthy, they > pass the official diagnostics tests from their manufacturers > correctly. They don't have any defective sectors. > > I'm using soekris net5501 bios 1.33c (it's the latest one I could find > on official website) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
