On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Simon Harford wrote: > Hi, I'm having some serious problems diagnosing a hardware issue in my linux system. > > The following error occurs intermittently. I have replaced hard drives > and it is still occurring. I'm trying to determine if it's a device > conflict, a problem with the motherboard or something else. Can anyone > help? > > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} > hda: dma_intr: 0x40 {Uncorrectable Error}, LBA sect = 32405, sector=32328 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda) sector 32405 > (this repeats for a whole lot of sectors...) Seems like a broken drive to me, can you try disabling udma and/or run a badblocks scan on the drive? best regards, michael