Noah silva on Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:00:15 +0200 |
This is probably the obvious solution, but don't you have another hard drive you could swap in for testing? I can probably loan you one if you don't. (assuming it's a standard laptop 2.5" IDE drive). -- noah silva On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, kevin mudrick wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hey all, > > I have a laptop and, if I don't specifically tell grub to turn > off dma with "ide=nodma", I get kernel errors like crazy, such as > > hda: timeout waiting for DMA > ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 > hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > hda: drive not ready for command > > If I turn off dma, then drive reads seem to be really really slow. The > laptop is a p166 with 80 megs of ram and a 2 gig ide hard drive. When I > say slow, I mean something like "ls" in my home directory (with very few > files in it) can take several seconds to display on the screen. I'm > running Red Hat 7.2 on this thing. Problem seems to be the same for both > the stock kernel (2.4.7-10) and a hand-built 2.4.18. > > I'm going to guess that my problem is that the hard drive is f'ed. Is it > possible that it's the laptop's ide controller, and not the hard drive? > Is there anyway for me to test, other than to buy a new hard drive and, if > that one doesn't work, then I know that the controller is bad (and I will > have just wasted a bunch of money)? > > Would running e2fsk -c on the drive partitions help, by marking any bad > blocks that might be, or does it seem like that's a totally different > situation? > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > - -- > (kevin mudrick) (kevin@furhurts.com) (www.bleachedwhale.com) > pgp key available at http://www.furhurts.com/~darkspur/kevin_gpg.asc > > Despair: It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: pgpenvelope 2.10.2 - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAjzFyIgACgkQLgu1Jo2sa+rlIwCglzqkFwshBW4pMsmrs18u2j9J > WSQAniXXezNOm739VMqBYuc540ZvuM6J > =ZP9A > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug > > ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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