On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:51:13PM -0800, plug bert wrote: > Hello All, > > We recently had nasty problems with one of our major servers running > Centos 5.2 64-bit; based on the error logs the problem stems from a > "defective" IDE drive. > > First we tried replacing the mobo; worked for a while, but ultimately we > ended up with the same problem. > > Then we tried replacing the IDE drive; same problem > > Then we replaced everything -- the drive, the mobo, the RAID array; still > ended up with the same problem. > > All the while we were getting DriveSeekComplete errors in the logs; the > server also froze whenever there was very heavy disk I/O on the IDE drive. > > We finally resorted to using CentOS 4.7; the problem went away. We noticed > that the IDE device was detected as sda, so we suspect the problem may be > with the IDE driver that 5.2 is using. > > > Is there a way of forcing the kernel to use a certain driver such that all > devices are addressed as sd*? We may need to use 5.2 soon, and we really > wouldn't want to relive our personal nightmare before Christmas. > > tia
I would just compile a custom kernel without ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support. Keep SCSI device support and the appropriate Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers. (Note, I am not a CentOS user so I'm not familiar with its quirks.) - Anna _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
