Ben Russo wrote:
carlsbad-nick wrote:
I suspected HW the first time, but now that it's happened again after a complete reinstall (and manual repartitioning), I'm thinking software (or user error...) Will appreciate any help or add'l info.
Nick Nichols
Is it the same machine?
Why do you think that doing a full re-install of the OS would fix a hardware problem?
Have you "tweaked" your IDE controller? Turning on hdparm settings?
carlsbad-nick wrote: > Thanks, Ben, for the quick response. > > Yes, it's the same machine. An HP Pavilion 7940, PIII, 128mb, 80gb. ... > It seems to me that symptoms of drive or controller problems would not > repeat in the same files in two different partitionings, so I'm > wondering if there are any known issues relating to filesystem > corruptions with symptoms similar to mine.
OK, so it is not a brand new system, try setting "idebus=33" at the end of the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf and in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, add a line at the end like this:
/sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hda
You may find that this will make your system slower and jittery when there is heavy disk I/O, but I think that DMA with an old buggy IDE controller may be your problem. Older versions of Linux had IDE/DMA support turned off by default because bad IDE DMA hardware behavior was common. I think it started with RedHat 9 that they turned on DMA by default.
You may be able to repare the damage by doing
"rpm --verify {rpmname}"
and if you find unexplained problems re-installing the RPM in
question.Let us know if this works!
-Ben.
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