On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:11:59PM +0000, Aneurin Price wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > > Anyway, if it's a software problem, it's probably not the module for > > the particular controller but something else. That people with all > > kinds of different hardware have this problem supports this theory. > > > > Hm, and I haven't seen anyone using Debian reporting it ... Is there > > anybody here who has seen it? > > > > > > This sounds more-or-less like my problem (I'm not using RAID though): > http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=121475606225101&w=2
Yeah, the disk just goes offline, and there doesn't seem to be a solution for it. --- Unlike you, I can't fix it with rebooting only; I have to turn off the power to get the disk back. What about the suggestion that the disk should have a ground connection to the chassis? That would be something new, and I find it hard to believe that it should be needed (other than for transfering heat). > That's not using vanilla or Debian kernels; it's an Ubuntu machine. > I'm including my uptimes list for it if anyone is interested in the > length of time it usually takes to manifest. It's the same here --- I don't have a list, but it could take a day, a few days, a week, a few weeks, or a month or two before the disk got lost. However, with my old board, it used to be longer intervals than your list shows, i. e. more often weeks or a month than days. I can't tell for the new board yet. > It *seems* to me to be linked with heavy usage, particularly writes, > but I'm not convinced this isn't coincidence since I haven't any > record of how heavily the disk is in use. It seems to happen to my disk when there's not much or no activity. > I may well be able to get it to manifest very quickly by going back > to using NFS, but I haven't tried. Hm, the last time I tried NFS, it didn't work at all: The server would freeze up once I tried to transfer larger amounts of data, and afair it had all sorts of other problems (like not actually copying), so I gave up on NFS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org