centos-bounces at centos.org <> scribbled on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 9:58 PM: > 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 > > Everything seems to be working fine but these errors do have > me concerned. > > The last time they occurred I was created a fairly large cpio > backup file in the '/tmp' directory. > > The drive has been checked via fsck, and any errors found > were reported to be corrected. > > Should I take some kind of action on this, or just ignore the errors? Try running smartctl -a /dev/hdx against the drive. Mike