Exact same thing happened to my Conner 1.2mb.....turns out the heads were
fine but the spindle motor failed shortly thereafter.
- jk
At 12:09 AM 6/20/2001, you wrote:
>Calling all you hard drive gurus out there...
>
>The hard drive: Quantum Fireball EL10.2A, 10GB, only drive on primary cable
>IDE chipset: ALi M5229 IDE interface, ALi M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge (on
>motherboard)
>Kernel: 2.2.19, using the alim15x3 driver
>
>For about a year, I've been running this setup with UDMA (mode 2) enabled
>without problems. But yesterday I started getting this message on the
>console at boot time:
>
>hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>ide0: reset: success
>
>...after which the drive reverts to non-DMA operation. Trying to turn
>DMA back on (hdparm -d1 /dev/hda) just causes the error to repeat. I've
>tried several different hdparm -X modes to no avail.
>
>The errors first appear when the system is going to multi-user mode, right
>after the root partition get remouted read-write. I'm not sure, but I
>think it's happening the first time something tries to write to the disk.
>
>
>So...is there anything I can do to get my DMA working again? Or is my hard
>drive starting to die? (It's less than three years old, and seems to be
>working fine in non-DMA mode.)
>
> - Neil Parker, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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