the box locks up !

[Madison Kelly]

You can (usuallY) enable SMART monitoring in the system BIOS. It -may- 
tell you something, but that is rare. You may want to surface-scan 
/dev/hdb and see what is reported. Also, check SYSLOG to see if there 
are any "I/O <blah blah>" errors on 'hdb'. If you see that, replace the 
drive asap.

Madison

David J Patrick wrote:
> Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>> 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 
> 
> 
> Apology for the misinformation, Madison, he "KLANGG " in question was 
> entirely metaphorical.
> The anti-event is perfectly silent and shows no other symptoms but FREEZE.
> On boot, BIOS indicates that both drives are S.M.A.R.T. capable but 
> disabled,
> should I (have) enabled that feature ?
> djp


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