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I ran into the same problem. My system has plenty of swap:


% free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255812 222152 33660 0 15280 70468
-/+ buffers/cache: 136404 119408
Swap: 1156672 111808 1044864


The first message was 4 days before:

Jun 21 02:00:56 bubba kernel: squeezecenter-s ...

Thanks for upgrading squeezecenter to 7.5.0. However I noticed the excito version is missing some useful utilities that are part of the binary package from
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/SqueezeboxServer_v7.5.0/squeezeboxserver-7.5.0-powerpc-linux.tgz

squeezeboxserver-7.5.0-30464-powerpc-linux ...

OK, 2.6.26.5-8 makes things better, but there is still a problem.
Summary of tests so far:

2.6.26.5-2 Vista samba copy to external esata: DMA error hang
2.6.26.5-2 Vista samba copy to internal drive: DMA error hang
2.6.26.5-2 Vista rsync copy to internal drive: success
2.6.26.5-8 Vista samba copy ...

I was at 2.6.26.5-2. Upgrading now. Thanks.

Installed hddtemp. /dev/sda temperature reaches 43. I did an rsync transfer but didn't see the problem. The hang happened when I did a samba transfer. I also had an ssh shell going.

Do I need to compile hhdtemp from the source? I tried installing smartmontools right after getting my Bubba Two but couldn't get it to work.

Regarding my hang, local disk accesses don't seem to be a problem. But copying files to the Bubba samba server over the network causes the hang. I checked the ...

I started to get this same DMA error today. I wonder if this is a symptom of overheating.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3422/3276894263_d78b89c4b7_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/booskunk/3276894263/in/set-72157613762040657/

eXcito Bubba Two with 1TB Western Digital Green drive, 9-10 Watts.
StarTech e-SATA RAID enclosure with 2 x 500GB Western Digital Blue drives, 2-5 Watts ...