Re: PATA drive - dma_timeouts and system lockups

Peter Chant wrote:

Chaps,

a while back I experienced problems with dma_timeouts on one of my drives
which was causing it to deselect dma and slow things down somewhat. This
week, whilst trying to sort out some backup issues, and therefore working
the disk quite hard, this problem has reared its head again along with
some
system freezes. Funny thing is, on re-boot, once the journal is replayed,
all is good again.

I'm wondering, is this really a drive failure or is this some hardware
issue between a fairly new PATA drive and a several years old motherboard?
Normally when hard drives have been on their way I've had then either
start to corrupt data, or give the click of death or just completely die
in a
very short period of time. Nothing like I am seeing now.

Googling for my motherboard and disk did not reveal much, someone
somewhere has had issues with any possible hardware combination - were
isolated issues but could not see any major outright problem.

So chaps, do you think my drive is on the way out or is it a hardware
issue? Just wondering whether a replacement drive or replacement
motherboard is appropriate, unless there is an obscure hdparm fix.

Pete

I had a pata drive do exactly that. Soon after, it began showing bad
clusters. I (foolishly) wrote zeros over everything and then ran the
manufacturer's utility to low-level format. It was as good as new for
about a year ... then did it all again. AND SO DID I! Eight months
later brought round three at which time I chucked it out.

Mine was an 80gig; about 18 months old when it first turned on me.
Cheap to replace. If your drive is replaceable for not a lot of
dinero, then I'd try that first.

Roby
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