Re: strange problem

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:19:50AM +0200, Cristi Banciu wrote:
> I have some strange problem with my machine
> It just freeze (no keybord or mouse activity, no ping reply). It happens
> while I am in X. 
> And from time to time I get this message:
> "hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }"

  $ fortune -m MessagesLikeThis
  (knghtbrd)
  %
  <Overfiend> Thunder-: when you get { MessagesLikeThisFromYourHardDrive }
  <Overfiend> Thunder-: it either means { TheDriverIsScrewy }
  <Overfiend> or
  <Overfiend> { YourDriveIsFlakingOut BackUpYourDataBeforeIt'sTooLate
              PrayToGod }
  %

Good luck ...

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]