What is your HDD model? Does it have 8Mb cache (mine has - ST3200822A) and I have the following line in /etc/rc.localif i run dmesg:
i got the following eror: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20 hda: DMA timeout retry hda: timeout waiting for DMA
want can i do against this. is dere any hd repair tool?
thanks
hdparm -W0 -u1 -c1 -a 8192 /dev/hde
My HDD in question is /dev/hde. The parameter -W0 disables the cached writebacks which linux kernel seems to have problem with (even upto version 2.6.10-1.737_FC3).
Hope that helps.
VJ