I told mozilla to do a search of my email messages and it seemed to freeze and the entire system was *very* sluggish. After trying several things, I finally did [Ctrl][L-Alt][1] where I saw a login prompt. But before I even had a chance to begin to log in, I started getting an error message that kept repeating about once per second. [L-Alt][2] showed the same thing as did 3 and 4 (where I gave up). I had managed to get the detailed system monitor running in the GUI, so I switched back over to that and killed mozilla. Responsiveness returned and the error message was no longer repeating. Here's the error (assuming that I copied it correctly since I could not figure out how to cut and paste from console 1 to the GUI):
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=22206449, high=1, low=5429333, sector=84880
end_request: I/O error, dev 21:06 (hde), sector 84880
Does this suggest that there is something wrong with my HDD? Should I just disable dma (or just cripple it)?
One very important question before you start pointing fingers: Is this problem repeatable: can you duplicate the error?
If so, then that raises the probability that the drive is bad (to some unknown degree). If the problem comes and goes, then you should suspect /everyone/ in the box, except the case, as I said before. In fact, I generally suspect everyone no matter what the symptoms are. I've saved both time and money with that attitude.
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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