kaushal said:
> Hello all,
> My cd-drive is behaving weirdly when I insert a cd-rom in it.It reacts
Some info on your operating system, distribution, version might be helpful.
<snip>
> hdd:command error:status=0x51 {Drive Ready SeekComplete Error}
> hdd:command error:error=0x54
Must be a Maxtor drive.
> After those error messages the system got stuck.Then I restarted the m/c
m/c?
> and the /var/log/messages showed the following two messages at two
> different times:
>
> kernel:hda:hda:dma_intr:status=0x51 {Drive Ready SeekComplete Error}
> kernel:hda:dma_intr:error=0x84 {Drive StatusError Bad CRC}
Hard drive is corrupt and getting seek errors, very common amongst cheap,
Maxtor drives.
> I guess there is some system initialization problem.
> or DMA problem(last 2 messages}
> Please help me in this aspect.Any way to debug further and diagnose and
> corner the faulty section?
Well, try replacing anything yet? My guess is the hard drive, seems how
that is what your OS is trying to tell you. The first problem might be a
CDROM trying to mount to a corrupt /dev node.
Let us know if your hard drive is a Maxtor, what size, and how old is it.
--
Scott
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