From: David M. Wilson (dw_at_botanicus.net)
Date: Thu 10 Jul 2003 - 16:40:57 BST
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:49:08AM -0400, Kyle Yencer wrote:
> Geoffrey,
>
> Has this driver been known to cause stability issues?
>
> Sometimes the machine will remain ping-able, but none of the services will
> respond (i.e., sshd, httpd)
$ telnet box 22
Connected...
Connection closed by remote host
Does that look familiar? If so, try disabling DMA and other
disk-related stuff. It's possible that the disks are going away if
you're seeing the above.
I have seen this numerous times on Intel/IDE machines over the last few
years when their disks had died.
David.