Re: HDD Error

[Jaswinder Singh Kohli <jskohli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try dissabling DMA usin
hdparm -d0 /dev/hdx   where x is the drive name a for ide0 or primary
master
and
slave and sec mas and sla ...

This may be due to reason that ure chipset doesn't support DMA

"G.hariharan" wrote:

> Hi
>
> Am having an error displayed on my terminal which says:
>
> hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {Drive Ready SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> hda: read_intr: status=0x49 {UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=36688064, sector
> = 316841
> end_request: I/O error , dev 03:07 (hda), sector 316841
>
> This error pops up every few minutes or so.
> could this be bad sector, and anyone any idea how I can mark this?
>
> The Hard Disk is a brand new 20 GB Seagate ( not barracuda), and it is
> Redhat 6.2 on a Pentium II 233 MHz
>
> Thanks in anticipation
>
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