My laptop hard drive recently died (or is in the process of dying). HP wanted me to do some more tests before sending me a replacement, so I tried booting Linux again today. I got lots of DMA errors, which was really to be expected, but then I got a kernel panic. While I'd not blame the kernel when a panic occurs with broken RAM or CPU, I'm sure sure the kernel should panic just because of a broken IDE drive. I posted a picture of the panic at http://cyrius.com/tmp/ide_panic.jpg Is this something that can be fixed or is my hardware really so broken that the kernel cannot deal with it? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
