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Re: PBG4 12" sometimes disk problems during boot



Gary Sandine wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:20, Pander wrote:
Since a few days my PBG4 12" will not always boot completely. Somewhere at the end of the boot sequence, just after it is loading some sound stuff it says (something like):

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hda: lost interupt,
hda: lost interupt, lost dma status: 8080

And then it hangs... Then I try again and all goes fine. Does this mean my harddisk is not stable anymore

My iBook did this a few months ago and I nabbed the data after a
successful boot and then changed the hard drive (which was crazy hard to
me who is used to working on PC laptops; I had three screws left over of
about 30 removed when done :). No problems since then.
Man, that s*cks, this PowerBook is only half a year old. Could this be caused by overheating and too much unneeded disk activity? If there are any ways of keeping disk activity low, I'm really interested.

P.



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