Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:24:04 +0200
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Eric Bickle <ebickle@healthspace.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem: IDE data corruption with VIA chipsets on 2.4.20-19.8+others
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Eric Bickle <ebickle@healthspace.ca> :
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> About one week later, the machine started behaving badly. Random crashes,
> problems, etc. A very unstable server. We suspected it was the IDE. We built
> another server using a different brand of motherboard and hard-drives and
> launched the server. One or two weeks later - same thing - major problems,
> crashes. In fact, we've launched about 4 different hardware configurations,
> some raid, some non-raid, different hard-drive brands, different versions of
> Lotus Domino. There is only one thing in common - they all crash, they all
> run RedHat Linux, and they all use IDE.

Overheat ?

What do smartctl -a and sensors output at regular interval say ?

Regards

--
Ueimor
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