Re: Harddisk Errors in Etch using Kernel 2.6.17 but not Kernel 2.6.8

On Saturday 02 December 2006 10:38, Salman Al-Rahma wrote:
I've been using Sarge for a several months now with no problem , other
than drooling over new software. So, as this is my desktop computer and
not a server -my server runs a Slackware 10, and is running very fine,
although I hope to find time to convert it to Debian 4.0 when it is
Stable-, so as this is just a desktop computer.. I decided an upgrade is
due.. so changed the sources in /etc/apt/sources.list from stable to
testing and did a dist-upgrade.

I had many things not upgraded as I had used few packages from backport,
so I did a manual apt-get install for each of them.. until apt-get
upgrade showed that the whole system is up-to-date.

But as updating a system is an ongoing process, I kept doing apt-get
update ; apt-get upgrade every couple of days, and it worked fine.

Until one day, I noticed that the system is very very slow. I checked
and noticed that the DMA for the harddisk is turned off and when trying
to turn it on the system stuck. I also noticed that during the boot
process the kernel gives many strange errors related to the harddisk.

So I rebooted the system using the kernel left from Sarge and the errors
didn't show up and DMA was k and the performance was OK, although xorg
didn't work.

What is wrong? and how to rectify this?

One of the big differences between sarge and etch is the use of udev now
rather than hotplug to discover your hardware. I just did a fresh install of
etch and hotplug wasn't installed at all, just udev.

I don't know if that's what causing the trouble but it might be worth looking
into. If you have the free space somewhere you could try a basic etch install
from scratch and see how that works.


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