On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:12:28PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >Try shutdown, disable DMA in the bios, and reboot into single-user mode > >(avoids mounting the drive rw). See if the messages show up in dmesg. > >Then reboot into normal mode and check syslog for that boot (ignore > >previous boots). > > There are the same messages. > > >The thing about S.M.A.R.T. If it says the drive is failing, then it is. > >If it says the drive is OK then it may be, or not. > > > >Try booting either the install disk in rescue mode or a live CD so that > >the drive is totally unmounted. Run a full filesystem check with > >read/write badblocks check. I'm not thinking you'll find bad blocks, > >but it forces the drive firmware to verify each block of the disk > >platter. Check the syslog of the live or install CD to see if you have > >the same errors. > > Yes, there are still the same messages. > > >Then reboot the normal system and check syslog again. Then start > >another S.M.A.R.T. long test and wait its recommended time and review > >the result. > > The new long test available at http://jumble.snurf.info/desktop/hard-disk > > So is it dead? >
According to SMART, the drive is fine. If the filesystem badblocks check was OK then that seems to be OK too. So I don't know why you're having DMA errors. Hopefully someone who knows more about SMART and the ide driver can shed some light. Perhaps its a driver issue. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
