ATA_DMA errors (and fs corruption!)

[Bob Bishop]

At 11:09 20/06/2005, Tony Byrne wrote:
>[...]
> Of course, there
>can be hardware reasons for timeouts such as a dying disk or cable,
>but I think we've eliminated these in our case. [etc]

Don't ignore the possibility of failing controller hardware. We had 
comparable mysterious problems on a client system, causing a lot of 
head-scratching. Eventually the failure went hard and we had to replace the 
motherboard.


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