 | | | Random Lockups under Disk Load (!) | Random Lockups under Disk Load (!) 2002-08-23 - By Joshua Andrews
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I moved everything over to a 100G WD drive and so far it seems stable so I
guess it was a bad hardware mixture.
I just assumed the drive would be fine since I have used 40G IBM drives on
the same controller in several other systems without any trouble - It is too
bad too because the 60G Deskstar is fast compared to the WD.
-J
Joshua Andrews wrote:
> HI,
>
> I have installed a new IBM Deskstar 60G drive to solve some problems I
> encountered during the upgrade from 7.1 to 7.3.
>
> The problem is I am getting drive lockups under load where the drive LED
> is always on though the mouse and keyboard still function as do any
> programs that are in memory. Any network file transfers from the system
> are sure to cause a lockup and sometimes just starting X or opening
> netscape will do it. The only thing of note in the logs is that there are
> many more APIC errors than I am used to seeing.
>
> The drive is a single drive on a hpt366 controller. I updated the kernel
> to the most recent 2.4.18-10 and the lockups seem less frequent but the
> system is still totally unstable.
>
> I adjusted the elevator values down to 4096/8192 with elvtune but it had
> no effect on what is causing the lockups.
>
> Are there known issues with htp366, IBM drives and 2.4.18 smp kernel? Any
> ideas?
>
> Thank you,
> Joshua Andrews
>
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