Hi, On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:43:47AM +1000, Simon Harford wrote: > > 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...) That is a drive error. > The above error terminates with > invalidate: busy buffer That messages is usually benign. > Then a kernel panic, then the following message What is the panic? We can't diagnose that by telepathy! The kernel _should_ be able to survive the IO errors coming from the drive. Cheers, Stephen