Any thoughts on how to diagnose whether the problem is with the motherboard?
Both the CD and HDD are brand new but the mobo is a couple a few years old.
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 03:51:51 -0700 (MST)
From: Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System lost one of its network interfaces
Could be a harddrive failure (either media or electronics), especially
if the samba messages boil down to accessing hda. Do you backup the
drives regularly?
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Patrick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Over the last few days, a server has been throwing out messages like
> the following at the same time every morning:
>
> Mar 16 06:15:20 dalek -- MARK --
> Mar 16 06:25:20 dalek kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {
> Busy }
> Mar 16 06:25:20 dalek kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
> Mar 16 06:25:20 dalek kernel: ide0: reset: success
> Mar 16 06:25:26 dalek syslogd 1.3-3#31: restart.
> Mar 16 06:25:31 dalek kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {
> Busy }
> Mar 16 06:25:31 dalek kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
> Mar 16 06:25:31 dalek kernel: ide0: reset: success
> Mar 16 06:25:31 dalek kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {
> Busy }
> Mar 16 06:25:31 dalek kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
> Mar 16 06:25:32 dalek kernel: ide0: reset: success
> Mar 16 06:55:20 dalek -- MARK --
> Mar 16 07:15:20 dalek -- MARK --
>
> This morning, it went a step further and lost its external network
> interfaces.
> Its on a remote site. As couldn't ssh in, the machine had to be rebooted.
>
> Does anyone recognise this problem?
>
> Also, when someone was in front of the system and logged on as root,
> they got lots and lots of samba messages overwriting the screen.
> Does anyone think this is a seperate problem or could it be related?
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Patrick Kirk
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