On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:04:51PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > >>>>> "PS" == Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PS> Did you test the partition with #badblocks ? Try turning DMA > PS> off for the check. > PS> > > No, I am about to now. How do I turn off DMA for the check ? There > doesn't seem to be an option to badblocks to do that.
Turn it off by #hdparm -d0 /dev/hda or turn DMA off completely in the BIOS. See #man hdparm for details
