Re: weird harddrive messages
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 01:47:02PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:40:02 -0700 (PDT) "nate"
> <debian-user@aphroland.org> wrote:
>
> > badblocks has never worked for me..seems it always spits out no
> > errors for my drives even when they are seriously damaged.
>
> It's saved my skin once already.
>
> > i reccomend running the diagnostics program hopefully available from
> > the disk vendor. IBM has drive fitness test, maxtor has Maxblast(i
> > think), not sure about western digital.
<snip. A lot :)>
I had this a while back and it was caused by an incorrectly configured
drive controller, just as it attempted to use DMA.
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