> I have seen this problem (computer freezing during an intense I/O operation) > caused by weak/failing sectors on a hard drive. It usually plays out that > only after about 100,000+ retries (and several seconds pass by) the sector on > the hard drive is successfully read or wrote to. In the meanwhile the whole > computer freezes.
Hi, Just to reinforce the comment above, I have seen this same behaviour on those so-called "green" hard drives from WD and Seagate. Generally when I've seen it the difficulty has been on Windows machines, however it can also happen on Linux - even on a non-failing drive. As a result I generally avoid using the green drives (but of course I run into people who have bought them and then gone on to wonder why their computer freezes up every so often during disk activity) _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
