RE: fedora 6 kernel panic issues

["Jason Taylor" <jtaylor uipacific com>]

Now it just did it again and I see end_request: I/O error dev sda
transacton #######

How could both hard drives be the same?


-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan lxorguk ukuu org uk] 
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:50 PM
To: For users of Fedora
Cc: Jason Taylor
Subject: Re: fedora 6 kernel panic issues

> once in a while (once or twice a week) the machine locks ups and the
> console had a bunch of I/O errors related to sba.  I thought this was
a

sba or sda - sda is the first SCSI disk (or SATA disk) so its probably a
disk problem.

> hard drive problem so I put in a second drive, and booted to an Ubuntu
> Live CD (I am a little more familiar with it) and used the dd command
to
> image the drive over to the new one.  But now I am having the same
> problem.  While I was ssh in the machine crashed and I saw this on the
> terminal
> 
>  
> 
> kernel: journal commit I/O error


It couldn't commit journal entries to the disk and update the file
system. One of your disks went for a hike, the question is why ?

What kernel ?