RE: [CentOS] CentOS 4.3 occasionally locking up accessing IDE drive

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 11:36 +0100, Dave Hatton wrote:

I've just had a similar problem but with SATA drives.

I discovered some reports of problems when smartctl scans were issued against running drives.

For me the fix was to turn off SMART monitoring (service smartd stop && chkconfig smartd off).

I put this here just to have your answer and this suggestion in one place. Has anyone checked the Mfg's (HD, controller, MoBo) web sites to see if probs reported/solved? Has anyone tried hdparm to "adjust" tunables to see if it makes a difference? I suspect not, based on what Dave is saying, but never know?

Also, no reason to believe y'all are the absolute first. Now sounds like Google might be productive?

Daveh

Bill