Hi Ayo, just guessin', did you try to boot with ide=nodma just for testing? In case this would help you could try to find out "how much" dma is acceptable for your drive.
This would be done by doing: /sbin/hdparm -d1 -X<dma-mode> /dev/hda I've seen such issues on [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.4, maybe this is not appropriate for your problem, but something to check. Take care Dieter Am Donnerstag, 7. September 2006 22:11 schrieb ayo Jegede: ***** > Below is my dmesg output running on kernel 2.4.27 ***** > hda:end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 2 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 4 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 6 ***** -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | \ /\_/\ | | ~x~ |/-----\ / \ /- \_/ ^^__ _ / _ ____ / <°°__ \- \_/ | |/ | | || || _| _| _| _| if you really want to see the pictures above - use some font with constant spacing like courier! :-) -----------------------------------------------------------