the box locks up !

[Sergey Kuznetsov]

On February 3, 2004 06:20 pm, David J Patrick wrote:
> JoeHill wrote:
> >On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 16:52:06 -0500
> >
> >David J Patrick disseminated the following:
> >>found no "I/O <yadda yadda>" errors in /var/log/syslog.
> >
> >It's a big file, so try:
> >
> >grep error /var/log/syslog
>
> Ever practical, Joe, your suggestion coughed out;
> Feb  3 09:02:53 PIII500 pppoe[287]: read (asyncReadFromPPP): Session
> 64958: Input/output error
> Feb  3 11:13:09 PIII500 kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { Drive
> StatusError BadCRC }
> Feb  3 14:40:46 PIII500 pppoe[323]: read (asyncReadFromPPP): Session
> 5285: Input/output error
>
> The pppoe errors could very well be a kink in the phone line, or something,
> but the BadCRC error makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
> anyone know what these might actually mean ?

It means crappy data. Bad block per se. Do have that freezeup on hdb ( slave ) 
drive?

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