On Sun, May 04, 1997 at 10:23:39PM +0000, Sam Ockman wrote: > Found this on terminal 7, probably came from X.... Is it a bad, bad thing, > or just somewhat bad? > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2356919, > sector=1280358 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280358 > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2357025, > sector=1280474 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280474 > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2357025, > sector=1280476 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03, sector 1280476
It could be just an incompatibility of some kind between your hard disk, disk controller, and Linux, or something. Try disabling DMA; there should be a boot parameter to do that (see the BootPrompt-HOWTO). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [**** ] 42% -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .