On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Zhihong Pan wrote: > The short version: The computer froze twice in a few hours, due to hard disk > problem as I think. Anyway to recover it to normal or I have to change it > and reinstall system? I am using RH 7.3 and ext3. Thanks
If you are having computer problems, make sure that you get the hardware fixed. No OS will run well on broken hardware. Given that... I would check the memory as well. http://www.memtest86.com/ has a good program that is free. I would turn off all DMA and other fast access modes to avoid problems. (You may have a DMA conflict or something else that is misbehaving.) hdparm -d0 /dev/hda will turn off dma on the drive. If you know the drive is bad, get a known good drive and boot from that. Then mount and copy from the faulty drive. Makes it easier if the OS does not get ripped out from benieth you. > > The long one: > > The computer basically suddenly forze, so i had to reboot. Then it froze at > "kernal panic: no init found" > I was in a panic for one second, this time a bit futher, froze when checking > /dev/hda, stopped at "recovering journal". Anyway, after trying a few > times, i was able to pull it back, even though > I heard strang squeeking sound from the disk a couple of times. > > Knowing the disk is in danger, I started to back up important data. But it > suddenly froze again. In short, again i rebooted it few times before getting > it back. It's almost the same steps as the frist crash, except it once > halted at "Starting Xinetd". > > I think it's harddisk problem for sure, but not sure what reason exactly. > Is it possible of bad sectors? Anyway to mark these sectors as dos and still > run it safely? Or i need to change a harddisk without doubt. BTW, i have > two disks in the computer. The system disk is faulty. /boot section seems > fine. > > Here is the newest error log when I was transfering some data for backup. I > didn't even log in after it's rebooted. I am just using ftp to transfer > data: > hda: timeout waiting for DMA > ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 > blk: queue c03d0e84, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask oxffffffff) > hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > hdb: DMA disabled > hda: drive not ready for command > ide0: reset: success > Thanks again if you read to the end, :p > > _________________________________________________________________ > Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
