Re: DMA errors, then I/O errors, on 2.6.16

On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 17:07 -0400, Andrew Moise wrote:
Running 2.6.16 (and some earlier 2.6 kernels as well), I get
occasional DMA failures, which are always followed by the disk not
working at all (any request leads to an I/O error). The log and whatnot
follows. Can anyone tell me what the source of this trouble might be
(disk, controller, cable, software)?
Please CC replies to me, as I'm not on the list. Thanks.

--- Log:

May 27 16:34:44 vino kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x7f { DriveReady DeviceFault
SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error }
May 27 16:34:44 vino kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x7f { DriveStatusError UncorrectableError SectorIdNotFound TrackZeroNotFound AddrMarkNotFound }, LBAsect=1495
68083689343, high=8914952, low=8355711, sector=356876123


this tends to be a disk dying.. better run smartctl to check it out...

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