Re: HELP: can't boot into woody due to HD problem
"S.Salman Ahmed" wrote:
>
> >>>>> "PS" == Philipp Schulte <philipp.schulte@arcormail.de> writes:
> PS> Did you test the partition with #badblocks ? Try turning DMA
> PS> off for the check.
> PS>
>
> No, I am about to now. How do I turn off DMA for the check ? There
> doesn't seem to be an option to badblocks to do that.
as far as i know DMA is turned on/off only via kernel config (requires
recompile/reboot) what kind of drive is it btw ? western digital drives
are famous for causing such errors with DMA mode(according to the
linux-kernel).
nate
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