Hi all I'd like to ask you about strange problem. I hope I chose a correct mailing list I have 2 IDE disks in RAID 1 with Reiserfs. Once I noticed message in the log: hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20 hde: timeout waiting for DMA PDC202XX: Primary channel reset. hde: timeout waiting for DMA hde: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting hde: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } PDC202XX: Primary channel reset. hde: drive not ready for command ide2: reset: success hde: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hde: drive not ready for command hde: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } DMA on hde was turned off so I turned it on again. Than I tried to made files backup on the hde, but when I ran tar computer didn't response even for sysrq, no log was written. I had to made a hard restart. It repeats for 4 times when I tried to did something with files on the hde. Now I'm afraid to do anything on that machine,unfortunately it is production server. What's goning on ? Thanks a lot for an answers BR Pet - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html