Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

Frank McCormick wrote:
> I've been following this thread for quite a while - I have been
> getting DMA timeout errors on boot for about a year - i am also running
> SMART and every test I have done shows no problem. Booted with the
> install disk and run fschk so many time I have lost track.

Do you mean fsck rather than fschk ? But, having read the manual, I don't know which option(s) to use? I prefer to ask you which option(s) to use before making mistakes. ;-)

> Never a problem, but DMA timeouts continue. I have come to the conclusion it's
> some obscure bug, perhaps in the IDE module. It *never* affects
> anything else as the drive is fast and so far reliable. If/when it dies
> I'll change my opinion.
>
>

I also think this is a bug.. but I don't understand why (if it's a bug) the problem happens suddenly! Maybe after an update ? I am not sure.

I use debian etch and the version of the Linux kernel is : 2.6.18-4-486. I still have the same problem with another kernels. So, I don't think that it comes from somewhere else but it's instead hardware...

Regards,

-- 
Shams Fantar (
http://snurf.info)


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