IDE kernel messages after potato install
Hello,
I am not trying to spam the debian mail lists, I am simply trying to
get the opinions of people more knowledgeable than I. The original
message sent to debian-user follows. Any thoughts will be appreciated.
> Hello,
>
> I have had two messages in kern.log since installing potato 2.2-r3
> yesterday. First, brief background: Gateway Solo 9300 with a 450 Mhz
> Pentium, 288 MB RAM, 12 GB IDE hd and IDE CDROM. Phoenix BIOS 16.53.
> Windows 98 currently resides on /dev/hda1, but I haven't added it back
> to lilo yet. I have been running RH 6.2 and then 7.0 on it without
> any obvious problems. The first problem occurred when I was
> un'tarring a pretty big file, my old /usr/local/ directory:
>
> Jul 16 04:33:55 wenho kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59
> { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> Jul 16 04:33:55 wenho kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40
> { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=16490098, sector=3188215
> Jul 16 04:33:55 wenho kernel: end_request: I/O error,
> dev 03:06 (hda), sector 3188215
>
> In looking on the web, it looks like people have said that this is a
> hardware error, but it seems strange that a hd error would just pop up
> the day after I install Debian.
>
> The second one is a clock time error that occurred when installing
> software from a CDROM:
>
> Jul 16 15:18:36 wenho kernel: probable hardware bug: clock timer
> configuration lost - probably a VIA686a.
> Jul 16 15:18:36 wenho kernel: probable hardware bug: restoring
> chip configuration.
>
> So, my question is are these really hardware problems that Debian is
> showing me and other OS's hide or don't notice? Or could these errors
> be due to the fact that I am using the kernel off the Debian CD?
> Might they disappear if I build my own kernel? Finally, are these
> significant? Do they occur and then the system tries again and then
> it works, or are these serious errors that should be corrected?
>
> Thanks for your time and any suggestions.
>
> Brian Flaherty
>
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