On December 30, Chang enlightened our ignorance thusly: > Should I be disturbed by these entries? > I just re-compiled my kernel-2.4.17 yesterday night with gcc-2.95.3 and > rebooted. There is no special noise out of the disk. > > Dec 29 22:53:14 server kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > SeekComplete Error } > Dec 29 22:53:14 server kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { > DriveStatusError BadCRC }
Yup, it appears your disk is dying, the BadCRC error message is particularly indicative of this. Back it up and replace it. Kurt -- Johnson's First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the most inconvenient possible time. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users