I am wondering about 3 things: Are your drive cables rated for ATA133? Are they brand new? You did use the nice, new cable that Maxtor packed with the drive, did you? And you did not break off or bend a connector pin? Is your hard drive overheating? Drives can get hot enough to roast fingers. You can get hard drive coolers at any CompUSA. Is your power supply defective or just does not offer enough power? I would think you need at least a 350 watt power supply, and I don't know what a stock Gateway offers. Thanks Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 21:19, Jesse Sweetland wrote: > This is very likely the case. I tried turning off UDMA for both drives > in my machine in the BIOS and so far I haven't had any luck. I have a > hard time believing it's a bum drive since 1) the darn thing is (almost) > brand new; and 2) it works with Linux...is there anything else I could > try? > > > > > Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:58:42 -0800 > > From: Jack Bowling <jbinpg@shaw.ca> > > Subject: Re: System Completely Locks Up 4-5 hours After Logging In > > To: psyche-list@redhat.com > > Reply-To: psyche-list@redhat.com > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:10:47PM -0600, Jesse Sweetland wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've been wrestling with this problem since 8.0 was released and I > haven't > >> found a solution yet in any of the other forums (there is an extensive > >> thread on the subject at LinuxISO.org/RedHat forum). 4 or 5 hours > after > >> logging into the box the system freezes up completely with the > following > >> symptoms: > >> > >> - no video updates > >> - mouse does not function > >> - keyboard does not function > >> - network traffic stop > >> - cannot SSH into the box > >> - cannot ping the box > >> > >> At first I did not experience these problems with SuSE 8.0. By > default SuSE > >> 8.0 puts the kernel in a /boot/ partition formatted as ext2. I > re-installed > >> SuSE I put everything on reiserFS (forgetting that /boot/ should be > on ext2) > >> and I began to experience the same kind of freezes. So I re-installed > SuSE > >> again with everything on ext2 and everything worked. Thinking I had > found > >> the problem I re-installed RedHat 8.0 and put everything on ext2 and > the > >> freezes starting happening more frequently before (on the order of a > couple > >> of minutes rather than a couple of hours). > >> > >> One thing worth mentioning--one time right before a SuSE lock up I > saw in > >> the xconsole window a message about kernel: /dev/hdb: lost interrupt > or > >> something along those lines. I checked the /proc/irq and everything > seems to > >> be in order. I had thought the problem was running the kernel from a > >> journaling filesystem, but this apparently is not the case, since I > have > >> reproduced the problem on an ext2 installation. I ran SuSE's memory > >> test...17 hours and no failures. I reformatted my drive with ext2 and > did > >> bad block checking...no bad blocks. The computer is new and the RAM > > >> My computer is a Gateway 500S that's about 6 months old. It has an > Intel > >> 845PT chipset with the CPU/LAN configuration with integrated ADI 1885 > audio > >> chip (currently disabled) and Intel 8256ET NIC. I have an > after-market ATI > >> Radeo 64MB DDR (retail box) video card and an after-market OEM > SoundBlaster > >> Audigy MP3+. The drive I am trying to install on is a 80GB Maxtor > 7200 RPM. > >> I've tried partitioning in several different configurations but > nothing > >> seems to help. Right now I'm running SuSE with the kernel on /boot/ > (ext2) > >> and / on ReiserFS and it's working fine. > > >> In the LinuxISO.org forum I found 2 or 3 other people with the same > problem. > >> Has anyone else seen anything like this? Any suggestions for further > >> troubleshooting? > > > I had exactly the same thing happen to me. The box was locking during > > overnight backups. Turned out one of the hard drives was kacking with > > improper DMA settings. I replaced the drive and everything started > working. Try to determine if the box is locking on hard drive access. > > > > -- > > Jack Bowling > > mailto: jbinpg@shaw.ca > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
