From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jamie Harris" Subject: Re: Kernel Panic Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:48:58 +0100 (BST) Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3460.164.11.204.246.1049726938.squirrel@jharris.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: B.Clewett@roadrunner.uk.com Cc: jamie@jharris.homeip.net, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org > I am not sure about the hardware, it's not easy to check, but I belive > my /dev/hda is a 40Gb someting purchaced a year back. On IDE. > Either a > Seagate, a Fujisu or a Western Digital. (Can't get cover off as > rack-mounted and rack screwed into removable cover :) I only asked to check that it wasn't on a RAID of somesort, as otherwise it isn't going to be hardware failure! > I hope you can help me, as the implications of an old kernel or an old > disk have radically different fix's :) As these problems have only just developed I'd be surprised if it was the Kernel. My guess would be the disk is on its ways out. Is anything mentioned in your logs about the disk in question? Also, out of curiosity how come you've only got ext3 on a couple of file systems and not all of them? Exactly which kernel are you running? cheers Jamie...