[RndTbl] Core 5 DMA errors

[John Lange]

Those errors are more likely signs of failing drive.

You should use the smartmontools to do a status check on your drive.

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Hard drives have had SMART technology for years and Linux has had these
tools for just about as long yet no distro (that I'm aware of) activates
smart monitoring by default. That is a real shame since they are so
valuable.

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On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 15:20 -0500, schwartz wrote:
> I'm getting weird DMA errors on my Fedora Core 5 computer.
> The motherboard is an ASRock P4VM800 with 512MB DDR
> Celeron 2533 MHz Model 4
> hard drive  is a Hitachi 7K80 7200 rpm parallel-ATA 80 Gig.
> Fedora is installed on /dev/hda7  9.4 Gig partition  ext3
> The DMA error message  shows up during big file,
> or multiple file, copying from one directory to another,
> and during bootup. dmesg shows this message:
> cd ..hda: dma_intr: status=0x51
> {  DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriverStatus Error BadCCR }
> ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>     Sometimes the error message shows up at one point
> in the boot process, sometimes in another. During really
> big copies, the DMA error message is quite frequent.  
> I also have XP, 98SE, and Slackware on the machine
> but so far none of them have this error, or maybe they're
> not telling.
> Can anyone tell me how to deal with this problem?
> 
> 
> 
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