Change your IDE cable, be happy. (old IDE have fewer wire) M BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > >--- 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? > > > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++