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Andrea Ferraris wrote: |
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[...Re: K7S5A failures / RMA...] |
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> The Big Bang! ;-) |
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> It seems that I'm more lucky. The system is running since 2 weeks |
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> without trouble. I've compiled really all (Gentoo install from stage 1), |
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> I ran piozone and bonnie++ to test the disks throughput, recompiling |
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> the kernel 60 times without pause (to test the RAM; the system load |
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> was at about 4) and I didn't get any error. |
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Oh, I had them stressed out. They tend to last anywhere between several |
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weeks and months before they die. Many lasted as long as a full year |
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before death. It seems to depend on a lot of factors, including stress |
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levels, heat (quantity/dissapation), power-on time / number of power |
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offs, dust levels, case on versus off, and just plain 'ol time. |
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Much like the Fujitsu 10-20GB ATA hard drives, we didn't find any |
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correlation between deaths. They just eventually go. |
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Early warnings are leaky and swollen capacitors, esp. those near the CPU |
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and RAM slots. (Note: the tops of the capacitors should be completely |
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flat. Any bulge or rounding indicates pending failure.) |
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I've lost the article (I could likely lay hands on it tomorrow), but the |
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line of bad capacitors was in the tens of millions and affected several |
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product lines, of which the ECS K7S5A was most prevalent for us. |
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> Now I've compiled the 2.6.1 kernel and installed and compiled the |
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> lm-sensors for such kernel and they works, it is, sensors-detect worked |
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> and now they can show many wrong data and use the ISA module, but |
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> that seems normal, I have to adjust that behaviour with some parameters |
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> to pass to the i2c modules. |
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What steps did you undergo to merge lm-sensors with 2.6.1? I was under |
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the impression that the ebuild merged both kernel modules and userland |
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tools, and the lm-sensors project page indicates that kernel modules |
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will not as yet work with 2.6.x. Is the ebuild intelligent, or did you |
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perform a manual installation? If the latter, we should get the ebuild |
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updated pronto so that it becomes intelligent. |
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Stewart Honsberger - http://blackdeath.snerk.org/ |
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To teach is to learn twice. |
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-- Joseph Joubert |
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