hi, me myself had similar troubles with SATA Seagate drive and DMA (in WinXP no problems) - see Jeff Garzik's libsata page.
I solved it by buying a Western Digital drive. Al_ On Thu 30. of March 2006 18:14, Ramiro Aceves wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you very much for your help. I apreciate your time. The hard > disk has faced the problem again today. The problem is that the disk > exhibit the same errors (with different numbers) at boot. > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=43778543, > high=2, low=10224111,> sector=43778543 > debian-remix kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, > sector 43778543 > > the system then remounts read-only and the system cannot write anything. > > I have just downloaded the Seagate diagnostics tool "SeaTools". It is > a bootable CDROM iso image. I will run it and will post the results > here. > > Regards. > > Ramiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]