Just a guess, could you check your ide cable. Sometimes this might
happen because of faulty ide cable.
-siddhartha
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 05:16:42 +0530, A. Mani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Soumyadip Modak wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >I am on a P4 2.4 Ghz, on an ATI RS350 chipset based motherboard. I have
> >a Seagate 40 GB hard disk, which I used previously on an nForce2 chipset
> >motherboard without any problems, but currently /var/log/messages often
> >shows the following.
> >
> >Sep 28 21:39:10 modak smartd: /dev/hdb:Failed to read smart thresholds
> >Sep 28 21:39:10 modak kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> >SeekComplete Error }
> >Sep 28 21:39:10 modak kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 {
> >DriveStatusError }
> >
> >Can someone shed some light on the possible causes of the error. Hard
> >disk access is sometimes really slow, and I had problems installing FC2.
> >The installation repeatedly freezes when it reaches the file copy stage.
> >Managed to install Debian after turning off DMA from the BIOS. hdparm
> >shows:
> >
> >/dev/hdb:
> > multcount = 0 (off)
> > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
> > unmaskirq = 0 (off)
> > using_dma = 0 (off)
> > keepsettings = 0 (off)
> > readonly = 0 (off)
> > readahead = 8 (on)
> > geometry = 4865/255/63, sectors = 78165360, start = 0
> >
> >(This is when DMA is set to Auto in BIOS)
> >What can I do to alleviate the problem ?
> >
> >Thanks a lot
> >
> >
> First check the hard disk with seagate's or better still with maxtors
> (i.e. if you can get it to work) standalone utility. Otherwise...hdparm
> and 'Auto' are not that way.
>
> A. Mani
> Member, Cal. Math. Soc
>
>
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