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Re: weird harddrive messages



This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft said:
> hi all,
> every now and then, klogd tells me all these funny things. among these
> is one such message:
> 
>   hda: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x58 
>     { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> 
> can you tell me what this means? the hda device is okay according to
> badblocks(1).
My rule of thumb (and it's taken from somewhere else, but I can't
remember the attribution right now) is
IfYourHardDriveIsGivingYouMessagesLikeThis, it's time to back up and
replace it.
Good Luck,
Steve

-- 
Boob's Law:
	You always find something in the last place you look.

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