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Re: Is this a bad, bad sign? (harddisk problem?)



On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +0000, Sam Ockman wrote:
> Found this on terminal 7, probably came from X.... Is it a bad, bad thing,
> or just somewhat bad?
> 
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2356919,
> sector=1280358
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280358
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2357025,
> sector=1280474
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280474
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2357025,
> sector=1280476
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280476

It could be just an incompatibility of some kind between your hard disk,
disk controller, and Linux, or something. Try disabling DMA; there
should be a boot parameter to do that (see the BootPrompt-HOWTO).


Hamish
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