Quoting Debian Bug Tracking System <owner@bugs.debian.org>: > sorry that looks badly like hardware fault. > hope you have backups. > > -- > maks > of course it is a hardware fault. I don't need backups since the system is up and running after the IDE reset if there isn't a hdd access in the meantime. so, the linux kernel could react better to this hardware fault, by enabling DMA after the ide reset.