On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote: > On Friday 31 January 2003 07:50 am, Net Llama! wrote: > > This doesn't sound like a power supply problem to me. I think your > > controller is dying. If it were the PSU, this wouldn't neccesarily > > effect just the disks, especially when left on overnight in an idle > > state. > > > Except maybe when the cron process does updatedb or whatever??
Yea, there is normally a cronjob that does that at like 5AM. Have you checked messages for any sense key errors? > > I have another controller (a BusLogic) that plugs into the PCI buss that > I can also use instead of the on-board controller. I don't want to > have to use it in the long run because my favorite kernel is compiled > for the Symbios controller so I'll need to tweak things if I need to > switch over for any extended period, but at least it will narrow down > the problem. That would definitely be the best route at this time. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
