the box locks up !

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 3 19:11:24 UTC 2004


First guess is that the hard drive I/O heads are slamming into either 
the platter spindle or inner chassis wall (based on the clang).

Madison

David J Patrick wrote:
> For quite a while, I have been experiencing an annoying problem
> that has been making my Debian box feel like Win98 (1st edition!).
> When accessing partitions on hdb the box will frequently lock up solid.
> I haven't been able to pinpoint the offending partition, but whether using
> Konqueror, mc, or  most recently QTParted (in an effort to find out more 
> about
> these partitions) I hold my breath and 1 out of 5 times KLANGGGG .... 
> sigh .. reboot.
> I have posted regarding this condition, in the past, but still have no idea
> how to properly diagnose the source of the offending behavior.
> Any ideas ?
> djp


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