On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: m.roth at 5-cent.us > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors Present... > > Keith Roberts wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, compdoc wrote: >> >>> To: 'CentOS mailing list' <centos at centos.org> >>> From: compdoc <compdoc at hotrodpc.com> >>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors Present >>> >>> Bad sectors get reallocated automatically, so you might >>> not find any with testing. You need to see how many have >>> been reallocated. > <snip> > Maybe, but I'd fsck -C -c /dev/.... > ^^ - check for bad blocks, put them in the table I could do that soon But I don't want to use DMA on this drive (/dev/hde) anyway. In the BIOS I turn DMA off for /dev/hda and /dev/hdc, but they still show up in /proc/ide/.../settings as using_dma 1. So is the kernel ignoring the BIOS DMA settings? 32-bit transfer mode is on in the BIOS though. Keith ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------