> hdparm -d 0 /dev/hda Yes I know. The point is, the machine is unusable with DMA off.
> Following on from other threads that have lately been on about this, I'd > get what you can off the disk, reformat and take it back, assuming it's > still under warranty. The problem with that is that unless a disk is mostly dead, I expect they'll come up with all sorts of excuses why a couple of bad sectors is perfectly normal for a disk drive. Currently I'm hoping that read/writing the bad areas often enough (while they aren't in real use) will eventually cause the disk to think it has a big-enough problem. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
