Re: DMA errors, then I/O errors, on 2.6.16

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Sat, 27 May 2006 17:07:15 EDT, Andrew Moise said:
>   Running 2.6.16 (and some earlier 2.6 kernels as well), I get
> occasional DMA failures, which are always followed by the disk not
> working at all (any request leads to an I/O error).

Have you tried running 'badblocks /dev/hda' under a kernel that is
believe to be working?  That looks more like a drive trying to fail
due to hardware causes than a software problem.....

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