Re: disk errors in 5.4

From: Skeleton Man (invalid_at_guestwho.com)
Date: 07/01/05 

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:50:31 -0400

>More than likely you have a hardware issue, which means you will have to
>troubleshoot accordingly. The harddisk isn't possible without a subsystem,
>which usually is the motherboard, your issue might also be related to bad
>memory, bad bios, bad cabling, bad psu, and maybe more. There is no magic
>software available that pinpoint the failing part of your system, you will
>have to work it out yourself, which you do by trial and error. But as said,
>more than likely, your issue is not with the software, but rather hardware.
>My suggestion is that you suspect hardware problems, and that you work
>systematically to resolve your problems.

Checked the power supply under load with a dmm.. all the rails are within spec
(brand new 350W psu).. and it's not a power hungy setup (Celeron 700Mhz, 1 hard
disk, 1 cd-rom)..

I checked the cabling by swapping out ide connectors with severel different
cables, some brand new from the packet, no difference..
I tried disconnecting cd-rom, no difference. I tried both the original and
replacement hard drives on both primary and secondary channels, no difference..

I tried swapping the ram with known good memory.. again no difference...

I am almost certain the issue is software, because a clean install of 5.4 boots
like a charm, but after adding the packages, everything segfaults/core dumps (I
got core dumps from acpi.ko, ssh, inetd, grep, and a list of others)

Regards,
Chris

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