Thanks, I do believe that the secondary controller may be disabled in the BIOS, I will try and enable it and see what happens. Thanks. Corey On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 01:53, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:22, Corey Taylor wrote: > > Hi all. I get the following message on startup: > > > > Journalled Block Device driver loaded > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > [etc] > > > > Is this a cause for concern. Does this mean I have a bad hard drive? > > I used to get this all the time with RH9. It turned out that my bios > settings had something to do with it. In my bios I had the secondary > controller disabled, or something like that, so I re-enabled it, and the > messages went away. > > Sorry I can't be more specific, it was a while ago! > > HTH,