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Old 11th June 2008
lil_elvis2000 lil_elvis2000 is offline
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Originally Posted by halber_mensch View Post
I too lean towards a power problem here. SATA seems to be very fickle where power is concerned... it seems to me that if I soft reset my machine (AMD64 3000+, 1G ram, 2xSATA 160G, 1xMemorex CD/DVD burner on 450W supply), I get READ_DMA timeouts from the disks - it's especially a pain if I've had a power failure because my gmirror rebuild and file system fscks spit out tons of READ_DMA timeout errors, and most likely the mirror rebuild will fail with a READ_DMA failure. However, it seems that if I completely power the machine down and cold boot, the error go away. I can't explain it. So now I've got my box on a UPS running apcupsd so it never goes down ungracefully.
This sounds like a bug to me. I would pass this on.
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