Re: What's going on with my IDE devices ?

From: Jay (jay_at_free.fr)
Date: 11/23/04


Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:59:14 +0100

Michael Heiming wrote:
> In alt.os.linux Jay <jay@free.fr>:
>
>>Hello,
>
>
>>I've had that problem for some months now :
>>DMA on my hda is always turned off at boot and I have to do
>>sudo hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda every time to turn it on again.
>>Here's the output I get in /var/log/syslog
>
>
>>Nov 23 22:15:44 xp kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
>>SeekComplete Error }
>>Nov 23 22:15:44 xp kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError
>>BadCRC }Nov 23 22:15:45 xp kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
>>DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>
> [..]
>
>
>>Can anyone tell me what's going on ? It's true there's sometimes a sort
>>of clicking noise coming from my HD (I don't know which one though) but
>>they work correctly, considering they've been on 24/7 for 3 years.
>
>
> It sounds like your hdb is going to die real soon, I'd make a
> backup if you haven't any recent, right now.
>

Thanks for your reply but why is DMA disabled on my hda and not on my
hdb ? That's what I can't understand !



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