RE: crash

[Sebastiaan <tw121164 elektron its tudelft nl>]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Uncle Meat wrote:

> 
> On 30-Jul-2000 Sebastiaan opined:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Sometimes Linux crashes and I do not know why. I get the following
> > message
> > repeated a couple of times:
> > ll_rw_block: device 08:03 only 512-char blocks implemented (4096)
> > 
> > Then the terminal hangs. I tried to login from another terminal and tried
> > to terminate some processes, which has failed (terminating). A while
> > later
> > I cannot login anymore, it keeps hangin. Even a soft reset (shutdown or
> > ctr+alt+del) stopped after the broadcast message 'System is going down
> > for
> > reboot now!'.
> > A hard reset is required.
> > 
> > Does anybody know what the reason for this could be? It just happens
> > sometimes, so I do not know what I did. I am using Redha6.1 on a pentium
> > 1
> > with scsi, for what it may be for use.
> 
> Not an answer to your question. But, I stopped using SCSI (RH6.2) because I
> was getting similar errors.
> 
> I noticed it after upgrading to 2.2.16 and don't recall if I tried an
> earlier version. I plan to do that sometime but, I don't know if that's
> when it started or not.
> 
> I've had no problem whatsoever since stopping the use of SCSI drives.
> They're still connected. I just don't use them.
> 
> Something in common here (besides the hangups)?

Yes, maybe. I used to burn cd's with cdrecord and that worked all well,
also under redhat6.1. But the last time I tried, I got 'scsi time out'
errors. Maybe my installation is filled with fith.

Greetings,
Sebastiaan


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