On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:40:19PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:
>
> I came home from work to find my debian box (woody) frozen - nothing was
> displaying on the monitor, keyboard/mouse weren't doing anything either.
>
> I rebooted the system, during the startup the various partitions were
> being fscked as they had not been cleanly unmounted, and then while
> /dev/hda9 (mounted as /var on my system) was being fscked, the following
> error message popped up:
>
> hda: irq timeout: Status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequestError}
> hda: irq timeout: error=0x40 {UnrecoverableError}: LBASect=19856947,
> Sector=851980
> hda: dma timeout
Did you test the partition with #badblocks ?
Try turning DMA off for the check.
