Thanks for all the help. The HD was a 4.3Gig but I have a 6Gig HD on hdd
which had /home and /usr on it. hda was just a windows partition and the
rest of the / stuff.
I've repartitioned the good disk and reinstalled Mandrake 7.2.
Good excuse to finally get rid of Windows anyway.
Just save beer money now for a new BIG HD
Cheers,
Frank.
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> --- Lawrence Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > David Irvine wrote:
> > >> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> > >> SeekCopmplete Error}
> > >> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveSatusError
> > >> BadCRC}
> > >> hda: dma_intr: status=0x53 { DriveReady
> > >> SeekComplete Index Error}
> > >>
> > >> Is this a sign of the HD about to die, or is it
> > >
> > > Recompile your kernel, under i think block devices
> > > theres an option that i've totally forgotton the
> >
> > name
> >
> > > of, but in the help part it mentions that, you
> >
> > simply
> >
> > > enable it, or was it turn it off. Anyway, it seems
> >
> > to
> >
> > > have worked for me.
> > >
> > > David
> >
> > I think you mean disable
> >
> > ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support --->
> > IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices --->
> > CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE
> >
> > That's how it is using 2.4.3.
> >
> > Nevertheless, I don't think that is the problem.
> > It sounds to me that the only way to keep this disk
> > up is to nail it to
> > the perch.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Lawrence
>
> Thanks Lawrence. I think your right, although it has
> stopped the problem for my new disk as well as an
> older disk that started having that problem under any
> sort of use be it heavy or light io. If the disk is
> getting progressivly worse then i would start tgz'ing
> your important stuff somewhere safe and look for a
> replacement fast, if you get a disk the same size then
> you can just dd the first disk onto the second disk.
>
> Hope that helped. You may wish to try the kernel thing
> just in case, you never know it may provide some life
> support.
>
> D
>
>
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