On Monday 10 September 2001 06:43 pm, Daniel Axtell wrote:
> I just finished installing Mandrake 8.0 a new WD 200bb Caviar drive.
> After rebooting the first time, the console came up with this error
> message:
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady Seek Complete Error}
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>
> The drive is brand new, but the motherboard has been used for a couple of
> months (it's an ABit KT7-RAID with the Via KT133 chipset). With the
> previous harddrive (also a WD Caviar) I occasionally got this message, but
> the machine never gave me any problems. Now that I'm turning it into a
> webserver I'm a little concerned.
>
> Is this something is likely to go away with a kernel upgrade (I'm using
> the stock 2.4.3-20 kernel, but plan to upgrade it to the latest soon), or
> by upgrading the BIOS, changing BIOS settings, or is it a potentially
> dangerous hardware error?
>
I'd do the usual:
Check integrity of physical hardware, tightness of connections, swap in a
known good IDE cable if problem persists after this check.
Boot in rescue mode and use fsck and badblocks on the disk. Backup any
critical data while you're at it.
Re-boot and see if the problem stil exists. If so, try the drive on another
known working computer. Still same error? Then it's _likely_ the hardware.
See if the drive manufacturer (like Maxtor) offers a DOS-bootable test
utility for the drive and check it out.
Hoyt
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