On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Edwin Humphries wrote: > Tobias, > > Yes, thanks, that worked. But now I have lots of error messages of > the format: > "dma=intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > dma_intr: error=0x40 { UnrecoverableError }, LBAsect=nnnnn, > sector=xxxxx, end_request: I/O error, dev 04:41 (hdb), sector=xxxxx" > > Does this really mean unrecoverable error, or is does it mean that > the bad sector is being added to the bad sector file, and that the > rest of the drive is OK? > Some just crawled out of the back of my memory when seeing "status=0x51". If this is an IDE drive are you using the correct cable? 80 pin conductor instead of a 40 pin? Also you might try running "badblocks" against the drive to see what it turns up. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list