NASLite Network Attached Storage

Ok, will do. It's a 128Meg DIMM. Knoppix halted part way through the hd repair passes, & reading Tony's posts I spotted that maybe more ram is necessary when there are lots of files on the disc (~ 80,000 on mine), so I stuck in another DIMM & it went through fine.



I started off this NAS with 1 pata, & 1 sata hd. The lock up occurred on a big file copy to the sata volume, but today's lock up was to the pata! So, when the RAM test is done (or I've run out of patience) I'll just put the sata back to cut down the variables, ie no IDE cable, just a short sata.

I note JohnnyV's hd is pata, so it would seem unrelated to hd type.



That is interesting - I wouldn't have thought of that. I was experimenting with programming various CF cards & readers when I got NL2 USB. I'll make up another card just in case. I wondered if NL does a checksum on the bits as a kind of integrity check?



Understood.

One variable is OS X, as I haven't tried big file copies from windows yet, so I'll do that next as well, although it seems unlikely that OS X file transfers would cause a problem like that?

It's a GA-311 e'net card.

I was hoping to get rid of the vga card too, but the bios won't let me

I'll dig up another mobo to act as a DRAM tester as well. That way I can validate DIMM's over a long test period.




& believe me, I certainly understand & appreciate that, thanks!

It's obviously difficult to do remote, text only debugging (ie the forum); I try to think of good ways to express things, & usually think of a better one just as I press "send"

Ironically, I was trying to help "JohnnyV" when I came across this problem myself! Amazing coincidence, eh?

You're clearly a long time NL user, so any thoughts on the length of time NL takes to validate & repair a HD (compared to fsck on Knoppix I mean) ?

thanks again for your time,

john

I ran the mem test for 3 hours. 16 passes, & no errors.

Today I copied ~ 20 Gig's from my old G3-400 b/w to NL just fine, only slowly

Over to a mac mini, set to gigabit, full duplex, jumbo frames.
Dragged a file to copy to NL. NL crashed.
This is now repeatable.

I turned off jumbo, & a 1.5G file copied ok.

However yesterday I copied from the old mac & NL froze.

I got NL2 USB as I didn't want a floppy or cd, but a CD is now essential to run Knoppix to repair the hd.

I'm using NFS for transfers, as there's filename issues with SMB, & when it works, NFS is faster.

Obviously I've looked at other forum posts, & I noticed one that mentions Finder is slow at IO.

So, I copied the same 1.5G file via Terminal. No difference. Of course, the slower speed mini hd may be the limiting factor, but Terminal copy doesn't look like it'll be much faster.

All mac's are running 10.4.8

Can you post the syslog content from the status pages? Move some data to and from the NAS, wait a few minutes for the status to update and post the content.

Thanks for replying Tony.

Can you give me an address to email the pages to please? I don't have access ATM to a suitable repository, & it looks like I can't paste directly here.

thanks.

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Just copy and paste in the forum.

The formatting looks pretty grim, but here goes:

Operating System Kernel:


KERNEL RELEASE VERSION

Linux 2.4.33.NASLite #1 Tue Aug 15 01:08:13 UTC 2006


System Uptime and Load Average:

UPTIME 1 MINUTE* 5 MINUTE* 15 MINUTE*

at 19:03:02
up for 9 min

SYSTEM LOAD 1%

SYSTEM LOAD 34%

SYSTEM LOAD 25%


System Memory (RAM):
TOTAL USED FREE BUFFERS USAGE

123M 120M 2M 0M

USED 97%


Process Activity:
SERVICES ACTIVE PROCESSES MEMORY (VMRSS*)
ALL VMRSS > 0 VMRSS = 0 KILOBYTES % OF TOTAL

GENERAL 22 10 12 3484

68%

TELNET 1 1 0 236

4%

HTTP 1 1 0 328

6%

RSYNC 1 1 0 376

7%

FTP 0 0 0 0

0%

SMB/CIFS 0 0 0 0

0%

NFS 12 5 7 676

13%

TOTAL 37 18 19 5100

100%


Processor (CPU):
CPU MODEL VENDOR MHZ BOGOMIPS CACHE

i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD 1244.724 2483.81 256 KB


Total Activity:



RX(%)


RX(MB)
TOTAL


TX(MB)


TX(%)


RX 52%
520.02 MB 1013 MB 493.81 MB

TX 48%



Hourly Activity:

HOURLY TRAFFIC ACTIVITY



















20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
HOUR


RX(KB)


TX(KB)
HOUR


RX(KB)


TX(KB)
HOUR


RX(KB)


TX(KB)

20 0 0 04 0 0 12 0 0

21 0 0 05 0 0 13 0 0

22 0 0 06 0 0 14 0 0

23 0 0 07 0 0 15 0 0

00 0 0 08 0 0 16 0 0

01 0 0 09 0 0 17 0 0

02 0 0 10 0 0 18 523432 11041

03 0 0 11 0 0 19 9075 494628


Daily Activity:
DAY


RX(MB)


TX(MB)
TOTAL

11.01. 520.02 MB 493.81 MB 1013 MB

ESTIMATED 653 MB 620 MB 1273 MB


Weekly Activity:
PERIOD


RX(MB)


TX(MB)
TOTAL

LAST 7 DAYS 520.02 MB 493.81 MB 1013 MB

CURRENT WEEK 520.02 MB 493.81 MB 1013 MB

ESTIMATED 960 MB 910 MB 1870 MB


Monthly Activity:
MONTH


RX(MB)


TX(MB)
TOTAL

JAN '07 520.02 MB 493.81 MB 1013 MB

ESTIMATED 1493 MB 1416 MB 2909 MB


Device Details:

DEVICE DETAILS

eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
eth0: RTL8169 at 0xc8807f00, 00:14:6c:cb:4c:dd, IRQ 3
eth0: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
eth0: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:6C:CB:4C:DD
inet addr:192.168.2.8 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:437912 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:420233 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:545291090 (520.0 MiB) TX bytes:517807706 (493.8 MiB)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x7f00

The syslog content is located in the syslog.htm page. Just copy the bullets under the "System Message Log" heading and paste those.

System Message Log:

Jan 11 21:05:02 syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2006.11.26-02:55+0000)
Jan 11 21:05:02 daemon.info init: ^MStarting pid 2217, console /dev/null: '/sbin/klogd'
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2006.11.26-02:55+0000)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Linux version 2.4.33.NASLite (root@TZT) (gcc version 3.3.6) #1 Tue Aug 15 01:08:13 UTC 2006
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000ee000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ff0000 (usable)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000007ff8000 (ACPI data)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff8000 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffee0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.notice kernel: 127MB LOWMEM available.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 32752
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: zone(1): 28656 pages.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000fa340
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT SiS735XX 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x07ff0000
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT SiS735XX 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x07ff0030
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 SiS 735 0x00000100 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=naslite.01
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Detected 1244.725 MHz processor.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Calibrating delay loop. 2483.81 BogoMIPS
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Memory: 123872k/131008k available (2198k kernel code, 6748k reserved, 734k data, 536k init, 0k highmem)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.debug kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.debug kernel: CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 02
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Checking for popad bug. OK.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.debug kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10 11 12 14 15)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 10
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 3
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Starting kswapd
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: 1
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.7.6-k1
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: dgrs: SW=$Id: dgrs.c,v 1.13 2000/06/06 04:07:00 rick Exp $ FW=Build 550 11/16/96 03:45:15
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: FW Version=$Version$
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: sk98lin: No adapter found.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.debug kernel: eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: eth0: RTL8169 at 0xc8807f00, 00:14:6c:cb:4c:dd, IRQ 3
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: eth0: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: eth0: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.5
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: SIS5513: chipset revision 208
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: SIS5513: SiS735 ATA 100 (2nd gen) controller
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Aug 15 2006 01:22:52)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.notice kernel: megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.debug kernel: libata version 1.20 loaded.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: PCI(00:11.0): version 0.5
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: PCI: Enabling device 00:11.0 (0105 -> 0107)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC400 ctl 0xC002 bmdma 0xB400 irq 11
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xBC00 ctl 0xB802 bmdma 0xB408 irq 11
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ata1: no device found (phy stat 00000000)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.debug kernel: ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:be01 87:4023 88:40ff
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA7, 488397168 sectors: LBA48
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: scsi1 : sata_uli
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: scsi2 : sata_uli
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG SP2504C Rev: VT10
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Partition check:
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: /dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.err kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc880b000, IRQ 10
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.3, PCI device 1039:7001
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: hub.c: 3 ports detected
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc880d000, IRQ 5
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.2, PCI device 1039:7001
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: hub.c: 3 ports detected
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: for Linux NET4.0.
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.notice kernel: RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: <6>hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-1, assigned address 2
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: .<6>scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Vendor: Model: Rev:
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: .Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: .SCSI device sdb: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: .sdb: Write Protect is off
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: /dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0:. unknown partition table
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.debug kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.debug kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 2
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: .<6>Freeing initrd memory: 1607k freed
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.warn kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.info kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 536k freed
Jan 11 21:05:02 user.err kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on sd(8,1)
Jan 11 21:05:30 user.notice syslog: authenticated mount request from 192.168.2.11:1018 for /export/Disk-0 (/export/Disk-0)
Jan 11 21:07:41 user.notice syslog: authenticated unmount request from 192.168.2.11:1016 for /export/Disk-0 (/export/Disk-0)
Jan 11 21:19:30 user.notice syslog: authenticated mount request from 192.168.2.4:1016 for /export/Disk-0 (/export/Disk-0)

In the BIOS, disable everything that NASLite does not use. LPT, COM, AUDIO, VGA IRQ, etc. to free unique IRQs. Disable ACPI and disable PnP OS.

Run again and see if the system stabilities. If so, turn ACPI on and repeat again.

If you are using an add-on NIC, move it to another slot. Also remove any peripherals that are not used.

Make sure you do a complete power down between tests. Some boards are poorly behaved on reset.

In fact Tony, I disabled all on the first install, except ACPI, which I suspected may be necessary for an automatic power-down from option-8, "shutdown".

As it had been a working win pc, I also removed all unrelated cards. I've already swapped video cards with no difference. I've also got a GA-311 in this mac, so I can swap those too.

However I will stop ACPI, & change pci slots.

You'll notice I disabled SMB service to be absolutely sure I am using NFS, as inexplicably (to me) the "services used" never show anything transferred via NFS, even after multi-gig' copies - the square button is always grey. Why is this?

Only http is blue when I've just got mac's connected.
thanks,
john

After disabling ACPI (any boot takes longer now I see, as loaders complain about RSDP) NL2 dies like this:

http://www.box.net/public/0gmjnh5vg5

The same box a few min's later booted from a useful Linux variant. It seems to work fine.[/img]

Most definitely the result of a hardware problem, the issue is likely caused by an IRQ conflict, most notably your NIC or SATA.

Are your NIC and SATA add-ons? Can you move each to a different slot and try again.

If the machine fails without ACPI running then the issue is likely IRQ related.

Both cards are add-ons. I was in fact going to try another mobo, but realised after I'd got it that it was pointless, as it has on-board 100bT, so NL2 wouldn't see the 1G nic.

I'll try another slot(s).

Why do 3 Knoppix variants work ok in the exact same config'?

Also the NFS not showing in NL stat's please?

thanks.

If you disable the onboard NIC, then NASLite will see only the add-on NIC. Alternately, you can wait for v2.04. It uses the last NIC found (ethN) rather than the first (eth0).

I'll go with the other board and proceed with the tests.

That's assuming the onboard one *can* be disabled.

Tests.

As requested, I moved the cards to different slots.

No register dump screen this time.

A file write attempt crashed NL2 immediately, just as before.

Z.
This of course meant yet another trip to unlock (it's the top bookmark currently), followed by the now regular Knoppix repair (about 5 times faster than NL2's, assuming NL2's finishes at all)

Anticipating your next request, I've removed the sata card (& thus the hd) & connected an IDE PATA.

Y.
Made a new folder on the (sole now) Nas drive.

Tried to copy a file to it. NL2 crashed immediately.

Goto Z.

As life's so short, to save some "me post, you post, me post back" time, anticipating your next next request, I removed the GA-311, & popped in another (both cards were bought new a week ago).

You guessed it, goto Z.

During this last performance, I left NL2 to do the obligatory repair. After an hour, I switched off, as no response from NL2.

So, let's recap now:

NL2 USB,
Mobo ECS K7S5A.
AMD cpu, ~ 1.25 G.
128M dimm, ran Memtest 3 hr's, no errors in either dram or cpu caches.

The above, along with several other (no longer present of course) pci cards has performed normally with a XP installation for > 2 years.

The only addition to the above items is a pci vga card (yes I've tried 3 of those too), a GA-311 (tried 2 now) & a basic pci 2 port sata card (which isn't even in the mobo currently.)

Also I repeat I have successfully run 3 Knoppix variants on the above setup for several hours.

Everything that isn't required on the mobo has been disabled via the bios.

I'm surprised that you don't have a process running which can dump a crash log to the usb stick for debugging.
If the wretched thing locks up, no way to know what's going on.

Would 1 of you kindlier souls who's familiar with Linux tell us, or point us to, an explanation for the Linux related part of the screen dump I posted the URL to?
I'm not bothered about the x86 registers

Aside from this, it looks like maybe I need to post a thread that doesn't say "Mac OS" in it & then perhaps somebody who uses NFS with maybe a different OS could tell me why I don't get any "bytes transferred using NFS" shown either.

JohnnyV, how's your NAS doing currently?