--- Rohan Walsh <rohan_walsh at yahoo.com.au> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 23:58 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 19:57 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > > > I am getting occasional seek error on my boot drive. > > > The messages are as follows: > > > > > > pshda: dma_intr: status = 0x51 { Drive ReadySeekComplete Error } > > > hda: dma_intr: error= 0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > > > > 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. > > > > 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: > > > > 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. > > 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 :) > How did you go about disabling dma?