log entry: kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 They may be due to a failing disk, MB, or cable problems but they can stop the system in its tracks. If the disk be mounted or otherwize being accessed, big red switch time. Otherwize, that wonderful click-clack of WD disks is the warning. Smartmon does not issue anything in time, it seems.
How might one configure smartmon to trap this "sooner". What I would want is to kill anything accessing the disk and then stop itself from doing so as well since smartmon is the likely accessing process. Try to save system from paralasis! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
