Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

[Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca>]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:28:02 +0200
Shams Fantar <sfantar@snurf.info> wrote:

> 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. ;-)
> 

   As I recall: fsck -n -c -v /dev/hda1     I guess you know not to run it on a
mounted partition.

That way it won't do anything to the file system, I still am not sure whether the
-c option means it won't add bad blocks to the list, but it has never found any so
the question is moot :)



> 
> 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.
> 
   My timeouts started when I updated Etch to Sid.So it's not just an Etch problem.


Cheers

Frank

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