Re: [PLUG] advice on kernel errors?

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 10:05:07AM -0400, Dan Crosta wrote:
> Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> 
> >Tuesday morning I started getting errors that look like these in
> >kern.log.  The disk hdb has one partition, /home/.  The volume is
> >formatted ext3.
> >
> >  Jun 27 07:53:03 asterix kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> >  Jun 27 07:53:03 asterix kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=260867239, high=15, low=9208999, sector=260867239
> >  
> >[...]
> >  
> >
> have you set CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE in your kernel? It's in "Device 
> Drivers > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL Support > Use multi-mode by default" in 
> menuconfig in 2.6.12, and it helped me with that error a while back (in 
> the 2.2 days)... still, all the advice in the thread bears listening-to, 
> especially back up your data!

I've never been terribly clear on how to determine how an existing
kernel was compiled.  All I've read on kernel options has been in that
vein, too.  

I think you're telling me how to determine an option I might have used
when compiling my kernel.  But, in fact, I apt-got my kernel.

How do I determine if the above was set?

-- 
 Jeff

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