Re: Drive errors

[Nicos Gollan <gtdev@spearhead.de>]

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On Friday 17 January 2003 16:06, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> I have been running the same woody box for more then 2 years, and I
> just got the following message:
>
> hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> hda: DMA disabled
> ide0: reset: success
>
> I seem to remember (the archives were no help) that someone had
> suggested that this may be a bad drive? Everything seems to be
> working now, but if this drive is on it's way out, I would rather
> replace it now before it's completely dead...

This could mean that the drive is developing a hardware problem while 
reading data from the disk (head positioning finishes, but no data is 
delivered). Depending on the type of the drive and on how hard it's 
been used, it probably has reached its best-before date. If you've been 
using it for two years now, that's probably the case. Most consumer 
drives are not meant to last this long (they're selling 'em cheap but 
in volume... figure out the rest for yourself...)

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