Re: SMART *causing* disk lossage?

[Jan Niehusmann]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:51:37PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> in 4 of the instances, smartd was the first to log anything about a dead
> disk -- it didn't log any change in the smart parameters, just that it
> couldn't reach the drive.  following smartd's complaint were kernel
> messages about resetting the bus, and so forth.

It may be completely unrelated, but we had similar problems in one
server after installing a new gigabit ethernet card. The server ran fine
for several days, and then the disk became unreachable. After a reboot
all was fine for a few days, and then the problem showed up again.

We 'solved' the problem by moving the ethernet card to a different pci
slot where it didn't share it's interrupt with the ide controler.

The mainboard was an asus a7v-133, and the NIC uses the tg3 driver.

Jan