[NCLUG] dma lost interrupt

Daniel Miles milesd at cs.colostate.edu
Mon Jul 14 00:31:49 MDT 2003


Ok, assuming that it *is* the HD going bad, this would be my third HD in
6 months. Is there anything linux might be doing to kill HD's?

On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 14:34, J. Paul Reed wrote:
> On 13 Jul 2003 at 06:39:07, Daniel Miles moved bits on my disk to say:
> 
> > Jul 13 06:30:39 Jane kernel: 
> > Jul 13 06:31:01 Jane kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
> > Jul 13 06:31:01 Jane kernel: hda: lost interrupt
> > Jul 13 06:31:01 Jane kernel: hda: dma_intr: bad DMA status (dma_stat=30)
> > Jul 13 06:31:01 Jane kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady
> > SeekComplete }
> > Jul 13 06:31:01 Jane kernel:
> 
> Unless it's a CDROM drive, I'd agree with Mike... it usually spells
> trouble. I'd try downgrading back to 2.4.18 (they did mess with the IDE
> subsystem in 2.4.21 to make it more responsive under load, I heard) and see
> if you still get the errors. If you run for a week or so (under heavy load)
> and don't see them, you might look into filing a bug report.
> 
> Later,
> Paul
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