Iwould do a complete cleaning, get rid of all dust in heat sinks, power supply and fans, check all cooling fan operation, plug and unplug each connector, and memory modules which will redo all mechnical connections to reduce resistance on each one. The older the PC, the bigget such problems can be.
Cleaning the machine is a good step, but I am not sure it will help. I have had
those kinds of errors due to problems with the SATA cables. You might try
replugging them, but they may have reached their end of life. Apparently, most
such cables are only good for a limited number of plug/unplug cycles. You may
need new ones.
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Cleaning the machine is a good step, but I am not sure it will help. I have had
those kinds of errors due to problems with the SATA cables. You might try
replugging them, but they may have reached their end of life. Apparently, most
such cables are only good for a limited number of plug/unplug cycles. You may
need new ones.[/QUOTE]
I have now cleaned the machine, re-seated the memory, raid card, sata cables and all other cables. It seemed that the messages had ceased but today while running a file sync with unison, I had more errors in the logs:-
So, you must think that either there is a hard drive problem or a disk controller problem on the motherboard. If you had an option to use a non-raid hard drive to see if it gets errors, that might be one thing to try. I do wonder is using a newer kernel might also tell you something?
well I upgraded the kernel from 3.4.6-2.10-desktop to 3.4.33-2.24-desktop. The dazed and confused errors have ceased and there are no other worrying errors in the logs. So I guess that 3.4.6-2.10 either has a bug or it just doesnt like my hardware.
So it is a curious thing for an apparent hardware problem to be associated with a bum kernel, but of course, anything can have bugs, that is for sure. Happy to hear of your success through kernel updates. For more info on kernel upgrades, have a look at my blog on the subject you can find here:
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