System freezes sporadically during user initiated HD access (SCSI)

2003-04-03 Thread Manegold
Hi all, my debian woody system developed a quirk that I can't isolate. From time to time the system freezes with the HD access light on. This LED is attaced to the SCSI controller (Terratec) so I guess this means it happens while it accesses on of the SCSI devices. I have a DVD-ROM and two

Re: HD access

2003-01-10 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:10:28AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: | You'r lucky :-) | I've only '01 01 01 01' after 'DMI pool DATA...' | | The BIOS recognize the nbrs of cylinders but not the size. | I changed the jumpers to 15 heads and had no more success. | I forgot, the HD is only a few mounths o

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread eb
* Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have an ancient Pentium 90 whose BIOS is convinced that no hard > > > drives are attached! Yet the system boots fine :) > > > > Reading this should enlighten you as to why you've no problems and the > > thread starter has :-) > > > > http://www

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:52:37PM +, eb wrote: > * Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:23:42AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > > > Happy new year.. and > > > I can't access my HD, 60GB, jumpers set to master. > > > On the bios he's recognized as only +/- 8.5

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:10:28AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > You'r lucky :-) > I've only '01 01 01 01' after 'DMI pool DATA...' This sounds like a LILO error. > The BIOS recognize the nbrs of cylinders but not the size. > I changed the jumpers to 15 heads and had no more success. > I forgot,

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread mess-mate
You'r lucky :-) I've only '01 01 01 01' after 'DMI pool DATA...' The BIOS recognize the nbrs of cylinders but not the size. I changed the jumpers to 15 heads and had no more success. I forgot, the HD is only a few mounths old (not an old one). I remember a similar message 6-10 months ago from

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread eb
* Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:23:42AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > > Happy new year.. and > > I can't access my HD, 60GB, jumpers set to master. > > On the bios he's recognized as only +/- 8.5GB ??? > > Tryed several settings in the bios as auto,user,mod

Re: HD access

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:23:42AM +0100, mess-mate wrote: > Happy new year.. and > I can't access my HD, 60GB, jumpers set to master. > On the bios he's recognized as only +/- 8.5GB ??? > Tryed several settings in the bios as auto,user,mode, etc.. > without success. > MB Pentium (1) 233Mhz. >

Re: HD access

2003-01-08 Thread eb
* mess-mate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Happy new year.. and > I can't access my HD, 60GB, jumpers set to master. > On the bios he's recognized as only +/- 8.5GB ??? > Tryed several settings in the bios as auto,user,mode, etc.. > without success. MB Pentium (1) 233Mhz. I suspect tha

HD access

2003-01-08 Thread mess-mate
Happy new year.. and I can't access my HD, 60GB, jumpers set to master. On the bios he's recognized as only +/- 8.5GB ??? Tryed several settings in the bios as auto,user,mode, etc.. without success. MB Pentium (1) 233Mhz. The strange thing is that he did it before I mounted him on my new box w

Re: Freeze on HD access during boot (installer kernel)

2001-11-14 Thread Carl Fink
Following myself in case anyone reads this in the archive and wants my solution. I have no idea, but progress none the less. Last night, when I got home from work, I booted using the newest Potato rescue/root disks, and e2fsck'ed the hard drive, finding and fixing several problems. After that, t

Re: Freeze on HD access during boot (installer kernel)

2001-11-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Carl Fink wrote: > My system board died, and I've replaced it with a new Biostar board > and AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz. Now I'm trying to boot up. VIA686a/b chipset? If yes, you either need a very very new 2.4.x kernel, or the "Athlon bug stomper" patch, or to NOT optimize the kerne

Freeze on HD access during boot (installer kernel)

2001-11-12 Thread Carl Fink
My system board died, and I've replaced it with a new Biostar board and AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz. Now I'm trying to boot up. Booting from my old LILO/boot partition on the EIDE hard drive freezes the system, along with flashing geometric color designs on the monitor. Booting from floppy works fine unt

tracing the HD access

1999-11-14 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I'd like to optimize my partitions locations for the maximum of speed Is there a utility which can trace the partition access (in order)? JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D