I just want the errors reported. This one may not serrious, but I've had others -- ie, Linux can read/write to certain sectors -- on previous hard drives. I'd like to know about all errors before I lose the hard drive.
-Paul On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Steve Gore wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 06:23:37PM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > > > > I want to be able to catch hard drive errors and email the administrator > > about the errors. Below is a sample message from the console: > > > > hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > > ide0: reset: success > > > > Of course, all errors aren't reported the same; I want all information > > concerning the hard drive devices and ide channels. > > > > Can anyone help? > > > ---end quoted text--- > > I don't really know what causes this error, but I receive it also. The only > cure I've found was to recompile the kernel with "Use DMA by default when > available" /disabled/. > > I've been told that this can be fixed with the hdparms package, but it's > never worked correctly for me. > > Regards, > Steve > -- >