Re: [PLUG] hard drive help

[Noah silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

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:

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> 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.
> 
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