On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 08:43:37 pm Craig Sanders wrote:
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 05:41:40PM +1100, Anthony Shipman wrote:
there's probably a setting for it somewhere....some BIOSes have settings in extremely weird places (a HP desktop machine i needed to run kvm on a few weeks ago had virtualisation support under "Security" in the BIOS. would never have thought of looking for it there, only found it by exhaustive search of every single option)
The BIOS has no settings for any of that.
The controller was in IDE mode. I've changed it to AHCI.
good. that's the native mode for sata these days, ide mode is an emulation for older operating systems (i.e. win xp. or even a later version of windows that was installed on IDE but has been upgraded to sata drives & controller. linux is cool with the underlying hardware changing - at worst, the device name may change so fstab might need editing - but windows doesn't like it at all, and it can be a real pain getting windows booting again if you change the drive type).
There were no changes to the device names.
I'll have to wait and see what happens next.
did you try the write test as well? Not at the moment.
one other thing to try - should have suggested it earlier. unmount the XFS file system (boot to single-user if necessary) and run xfs_check and/or xfs_repair on it. if the fs has been corrupted badly enough in the past (e.g. due to a crash or power failure), xfs can get terribly confused when it encounters the corruption again.
I tried xfs_repair earlier on Sat after rebooting from the last crash. It reported no errors. -- Anthony Shipman Mamas don't let your babies als@iinet.net.au grow up to be outsourced.