Re: Hard disk failure?

[spacetrial <spacetrial@gmail.com>]

hi,

me myself had similar troubles with SATA Seagate drive and DMA (in WinXP no 
problems) - see Jeff Garzik's libsata page.

I solved it by buying a Western Digital drive.

Al_

On Thu 30. of March 2006 18:14, Ramiro Aceves wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you very much for your help. I apreciate your time. The hard
> disk has faced the problem again today. The problem is that the disk
> exhibit the same errors (with different numbers) at boot.
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=43778543,
> high=2, low=10224111,> sector=43778543
> debian-remix kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda,
>  sector 43778543
>
> the system then remounts read-only and the system cannot write anything.
>
> I have just downloaded the Seagate diagnostics tool "SeaTools". It is
> a bootable CDROM iso image. I will run it and will post the results
> here.
>
> Regards.
>
> Ramiro