I told mozilla to do a search of my email messages and it seemed to
freeze and the entire system was *very* sluggish. After trying several
things, I finally did [Ctrl][L-Alt][1] where I saw a login prompt. But
before I even had a chance to begin to log in, I started getting an
error message that kept repeating about once per second. [L-Alt][2]
showed the same thing as did 3 and 4 (where I gave up). I had managed
to get the detailed system monitor running in the GUI, so I switched
back over to that and killed mozilla. Responsiveness returned and the
error message was no longer repeating. Here's the error (assuming that
I copied it correctly since I could not figure out how to cut and paste
from console 1 to the GUI):
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=22206449,
high=1, low=5429333, sector=84880
end_request: I/O error, dev 21:06 (hde), sector 84880
Does this suggest that there is something wrong with my HDD? Should I
just disable dma (or just cripple it)?
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