[CentOS] Long tar -x: Box Shuts Down

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:51:35 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:50 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>>>My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x.  There is
>>>plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past.
>>>
>>>Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Look in the logs, particularly dmesg, to see if there are any hints
>> there.
>> 
>> Bill
> 
> Nothing jumps out.
> 
> Mike.

I got it working again with a rescue, but it still crashes.
Here are some suspect lines from messages:

Nov  5 19:35:14 mbrc21 kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady 
SeekComplete Error }
Nov  5 19:35:14 mbrc21 kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 
{ DriveStatusError }
Nov  5 19:35:14 mbrc21 kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0
...
Nov  5 19:35:34 mbrc21 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 
16 (level, low) -> IRQ 201

What do you think?

Thanks,
Mike.