At 01:55 PM 10/26/00 -0400, Ward William E PHDN wrote:
>On after shutting down, and rebooting, I got the error
>message. Now, I'm used to seeing this message on this
>machine; I get a kernal panic on it every 2-3 days
>due to a hardware problem (it almost happens like
>clockwork... normally, though not always, at 12:02 am.
>I need to check what cron job I have going off then...).
>But if I reboot, I should have had a CLEAN boot. So,
>why the error message?
You haven't been playing with hdparm by any chance have you? I had a
similar problem with a couple of Fujitsu hard disks that would loose stuff
on a reboot or shutdown unless I had hdparm flush and de-activate the
hardware write cache before shutting down (although this wouldn't have been
a problem if I hadn't turned it on at boot time). Similarly HDD access
causing wierd machine failures seems to be common with
flakey/badly-configured DMA and UDMA mode IDE drives. Of course if nobody
has touched hdparm on the machine then this message is totally useless. . .
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