On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, F.McCaffery wrote:
> Chaps,
>
> Need a bit of advice about a hard disc problem. My HD is making random
> clunking noises and when in command line mode I get the following messages
> fly up the screen:-
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCopmplete Error}
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveSatusError BadCRC}
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x53 { DriveReady SeekComplete Index Error}
I think your hard drive may be on it's last legs - time for backups!!
>
> Is this a sign of the HD about to die, or is it recverable.
May be anoying - and if you machine gets cut off without a proper shutdown
down, the fsck will not be much fun :( - you probably wanna look at a new
HD
> The PC still works but just makes noise and locks up for a couple of seconds
> now and again.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Frank.
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