FC3 x86-64 freezes on SATA?!?!

[Edward]

Angelo Machils wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> Sometimes my box just 'freezes' on me, especially when I try some 
> disk-intensive task (like rebuilding the database for slocate).  It's 
> probably a kernel panic (afterwards there are no entries in any log) and 
> this also happens sometimes even at startup (most times at the 'checking 
> for hardware' point). I get a message then about a kernel panic, not 
> being able to sync and there is a mention about two SCSI modules who 
> lock up (sorry, don't have the exact message, and here also there is 
> nothing in the log, since it's a kernel panic). From searches on the 
> internet I gather there must be some bad blocks on the disk, and 
> smartctl could help, but since my SATA uses libata (the disk shows up as 
> being a SCSI disk -- a /dev/sda) and this has no support in smartctl. 
> What other util or solution could I try, because my box is even more 
> unstable now then a win box at the moment.
> The entries in the websites show a little different error message, but 
> the result is very similar. Very strange is that the only mention I find 
> about such problems are always in a RAID environment, and I don't use 
> RAID.....
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, because I would prefer not to 
> have to re-install the box.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Angelo
> 

Can't help you but it may help us if you tell us more about the SATA 
controller/hard disks?

I may be a known hardware/driver issue?

Regards,
Ed.