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



if you are getting hda errors.  What kind of hardrive do you have.  give 
me your hardware specs.  I can't help you if you don't give me any useful 
information.  Reply soon.
Paul 
Ps. read your mail.

On Tue, 6 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:

> 
> Would that include the SB16 software configureable card?  What used to be
> called PNP by some.
> 
> I have this card and just found after further checking that I am having
> this error also.  It isn't often it's only happened on 6 days in the past
> 3 months from what I can see by my logs.  At any rate it isn't persistant
> so it may be something like that.
> 
> PNP won't configure this card.  Is anybody aware of a linux version the
> DOS configure util's for SB16?
> 
> On Wed, 7 May 1997, Dima wrote:
> 
> > You wrote:
> > >On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +0000, Sam Ockman wrote:
> > .... 
> > >> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > ....
> > >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).
> > 
> > Speaking of incompatibilities, I had an irq request error (DriveReady
> > SeekComplete ...) after I added a 3rd hard drive.  The problem turned
> > out to be with my PnP sound card, and the fix was to use DMA 3 for
> > sound (not 0 or 1.)
> > 
> > So, if you have any  PnP devices -- check their settings, too.
> > 
> > --
> > Dimitri
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> --Rick
> 
> rickya@siservices.net
> 
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