Frank McCormick wrote:
I've been following this thread for quite a while - I have been getting DMA timeout errors on boot for about a year - i am also running SMART and every test I have done shows no problem. Booted with the install disk and run fschk so many time I have lost track.
Do you mean fsck rather than fschk ? But, having read the manual, I don't know which option(s) to use? I prefer to ask you which option(s) to use before making mistakes. ;-)
Never a problem, but DMA timeouts continue. I have come to the conclusion it's some obscure bug, perhaps in the IDE module. It *never* affects anything else as the drive is fast and so far reliable. If/when it dies I'll change my opinion.
I also think this is a bug.. but I don't understand why (if it's a bug) the problem happens suddenly! Maybe after an update ? I am not sure.
I use debian etch and the version of the Linux kernel is : 2.6.18-4-486. I still have the same problem with another kernels. So, I don't think that it comes from somewhere else but it's instead hardware...
Regards, -- Shams Fantar (http://snurf.info)