On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 09:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here some HW details:
> 1. A 5 year old system that had win2K on it for 3 years and since then
> SuSE 9.3 and all the following. Here the problem occur with OpenSUSE
5 year old system = possible harddrive beyond its life expectancy.
> 10.2. It has an ASUS mobo with ATI Radion graphic card.
> 2. A 2 year old system only had SuSE 10.0 that had the problem and now
> has WinXP without any problems. It's a Gigabyte mobo with ATI Radion
> graphic card. I noticed that intensive file access by Evolution caused a
> systrem lockup many times.
> 3. The latest 1 year old system showed the problem mainly with SUSE 10.0
> and now with OpenSUSE 10.2. An identical system has SuSE 10.1, where the
> problem has till now not occured. It is a Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLi mobo with
> nVidia GeForce 7600 GS.
Even newer systems come with a one year warranty on IDE harddrives. I've
seen new drives fail after only a couple of months of use includinf SCSI
drives which generally have a longer life expectancy.
>
> The difference between the lockups of the SUSE 10.0 and OpenSUSE 10.2 is that
> with 10.0 it did not allow any access to the system at all; a complete
> lockdown - dead - only reset got it unlocked. The OpenSUSE 10.2 reports RO FS
> problems by all applications. The system can be rebooted or shut down
> normally.
>
> plus
> > information from /var/log/messages about what is happening when the
> > filesystem goes RO
>
> I noticed on two different systems this sort of messages
> in /var/logs/messages:
>
> Jun 2 22:15:03 kakalapap kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51
> { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> Jun 2 22:15:03 kakalapap kernel: hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04
> { DriveStatusError }
> Jun 2 22:15:03 kakalapap kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xef
>
I only see these errors in relation to my DVD/CD drive (hda). Could this
possibly relate to your CD drive? If not I would suspect a bad cable.
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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