On Saturday 13 September 2008 08:42:22 Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > Just got a thinkpad x40 on ebay, and I had some problems with it. > > Any "real work" (building/untarring) was causing soft errors: > > wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout > type: ata > c_bcount: 16384 > c_skip: 0 > pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21 > wd0a: device timeout reading fsbn 2230936 of 2230936-2230967 (wd0 bn > 2230999; cn 147 tn 132 sn 43), retrying [snip]
Thats a bad hard disk. I've gotten used laptops, but have always changed the disk out for a new one. Sometimes errors like this disappear, but do not trust it, replace it. Newegg here in the US is a good place. --STeve Andre'
