[RndTbl] Core 5 DMA errors

[Sean Walberg]

Since the docs don't make it really obvious how to do a spot check:

[root at sergeant root]# smartctl -t short /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.21 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
Sending command: "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in
off-line mode".
Drive command "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line
mode" successful.
Testing has begun.
Please wait 1 minutes for test to complete.
Test will complete after Wed May 31 09:27:42 2006

Use smartctl -X to abort test.
[root at sergeant root]# smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.21 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)
LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     30579
-
# 2  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     29284
-
# 3  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     28500
-


You may want to do "-t long" instead of short, it takes a while to execute
but is more thorough.

Sean

On 5/31/06, John Lange <john.lange at open-it.ca> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> John Lange
> OpenIT ltd. www.Open-IT.ca (204) 885 0872
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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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