[Bulk] [CentOS] hda dma seek errors

[Manuel BERTRAND]

Change your IDE cable, be happy.
(old IDE have fewer wire)
M

BRUCE STANLEY wrote:

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>--- Rohan Walsh <rohan_walsh at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 23:58 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:57 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
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>>>>I am getting occasional seek error on my boot drive.
>>>>The messages are as follows:
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>>>>pshda: dma_intr: status = 0x51 { Drive ReadySeekComplete Error }
>>>>  hda: dma_intr: error= 0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>>>>  ide: failed opcode was: unknown
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>>>I've recently seen similar errors on an old server here, and all my
>>>Googling seems to indicate an early sign of imminent drive failure.
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>>>Some people reported resolving the issue by making changes to DMA
>>>settings with hdparm, or changing something in the BIOS.  However, in
>>>most cases, the recommendations were:
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>>>1. Backup data, ASAP, and wait for failure before moving to new disk
>>>2. Use fdisk to map out the bad sectors.
>>>3. Get a new HD, ASAP.
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>>I used these errors as a good reason to buy a bigger drive and the new
>>drive had the same error messages. After testing with seagates tool, I
>>can find no problem with either drive. I disable dma as a temporary
>>solution, but I think it is not a drive fault in my case. Do back up :)
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>How did you go about disabling dma?
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