Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error DriveStatusError BadCRC

2007-11-20 Thread SPKills
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:02:29AM +0100, SPKills wrote: I just (re)installed debian etch on my machine, at the first reboot i got some errors on my harddisk and i don't really know what it's about... But i'm pretty sure it's good at all and i probably have to worry about... I tried to do

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error DriveStatusError BadCRC

2007-11-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:02:29AM +0100, SPKills wrote: > I just (re)installed debian etch on my machine, at the first reboot i > got some errors on my harddisk and i don't really know what it's > about... But i'm pretty sure it's good at all and i probably have to > worry about... > I tried to

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error DriveStatusError BadCRC

2007-11-19 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
SPKills wrote: Hi, I just (re)installed debian etch on my machine, at the first reboot i got some errors on my harddisk and i don't really know what it's about... But i'm pretty sure it's good at all and i probably have to worry about... I tried to do a fschk -c /dev/hda1 but i got a warning

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

2005-08-01 Thread Pollywog
On 08/01/2005 05:42 am, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, persall wrote: > > DriveReady SeekComplete Error > > that is usually: > a) mixture of ide devices on the same ide cable > - keep cdrom and dvd on its own cable > - keep ata133 devices on a different cable than ata100 drives > - bad

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

2005-08-01 Thread Brice Méalier
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 10:12:56PM +, persall wrote : > DriveReady SeekComplete Error > I get this error when trying to copy a large file > from my CD drive. I have Debian 3.1 Sarge. > It's not the hardware, because I dual boot to Windows > and I can copy the file I want using Windows. > In fac

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

2005-07-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, persall wrote: > DriveReady SeekComplete Error that is usually: a) mixture of ide devices on the same ide cable - keep cdrom and dvd on its own cable - keep ata133 devices on a different cable than ata100 drives - bad ide driver ( aka motherboard )

Re: 'DriveReady SeekComplete Error' ?

2004-06-20 Thread Luiso Pérez
Hi Adam, Your hard disk isn't broken, there is a problem whith the bios and linux, probe tu disable ulra dma on bios setup. Please tell me since it has gone to you!! - Original Message - From: Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:09:44 +1200 Subject: 'DriveReady Se

Re: 'DriveReady SeekComplete Error' ?

2004-06-17 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:09:44 +1200 Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... but am not having success in mounting dvd and dmesg is giving me > the output below > which I can't interpret. Can someone tell me what > > 'DriveReady SeekComplete Error' means ? It mostly means that some error occ

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error!

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:21:20PM -0800, jdls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > In the middle of reading a disc for package installation of deselect an error > occurs: > > Trunks:/#hdc: cdrom_decode_status:status=0x51 > {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} > hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

2000-07-08 Thread eric k. wolven
Fernando: Yes, check "no" for DMA Enabled in kernel config. This thread about the message has appeared before. Opinion was divided whether it signaled a bad hard drive or a minor glitch. By all means, if you can exchange your hard drive easily, do. I chose to disable the DMA by default optio

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

2000-07-08 Thread Fernando T C Brandt
Dear Eric, Thank you very much for your answer.! The Ttings which are related to DMA in my present kernel configurations are the following: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y If I understand correctly your solution, I should say No to CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA. Is that correct? One thi

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

2000-07-08 Thread eric k. wolven
Fernando: I removed the DMA option from my compilation of the kernel. I do not get those messages anymore. Eric Wolven

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-10-04 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello I once had the error mentioned in the subject line with an IBM DAQA4030 4GB drive (which smoked up some month ago...) I fixed it by suplying something similar to the following options "ide0=noautotune" to my /etc/lilo.conf. Then it was quiet. Hope it helps. bye, -christian- --

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-10-04 Thread David Karlin
> -Original Message- > From: B. Szyszka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 3:21 PM > To: Stephen R. Gore > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError > > Well "buy something el

Hard Drive testing.. (Was: Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError)

1999-10-03 Thread ferret
The best thing really to do is go to the drive manufacturer's website, and find and download their diagnostic software for your hard drive. Unfortunately, you'll need some kind of DOS-bootable floppy or hard drive partition to RUN the software. I just had two hard drives go to a series of brownout

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-30 Thread George Bonser
I am kind of catching up on old email so I do not know if this problem got resolved but go into your BIOS and set the IDE controller to PIO Mode 3 or LOWER and it will work. This is a problem with some UDMA drives. I used to get them all the time ... constantly as a matter of fact until I turned o

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread B. Szyszka
> OK, but for me it remains the only convincing test. > As it happens I have a couple of old pentium 75 motherboards at home and > I just imagined that maybe you or somebody you knew also had stuff like > that that you could use for a test, temporarily. The other motherboard I have is from an old 4

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread Andrew Hately
B. Szyszka wrote: > > Like I said, I can't afford to OK, but for me it remains the only convincing test. As it happens I have a couple of old pentium 75 motherboards at home and I just imagined that maybe you or somebody you knew also had stuff like that that you could use for a test, temporarily

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread Mark M
Hi Bart, > running into some error messages: > hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Not sure if anyone else has mentioned these yet, here are a few things you could check: i) Is there a power down of the drive through b

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread B. Szyszka
> I cannot give you any other suggestions ATM, because you haven't deigned > to list /any/ of your hardware. Since this seems to be a hardware-related > problem, the idea that anyone could solve it for you w/o hardware specicfic > information is ludicrous. All you had to do was ask, then. Some of

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-29 Thread Stephen R. Gore
B. Szyszka wrote: > > Personally, I find it difficult to troubleshoot problems when the only > > data I'm given is "These things cost money". Give us something to work > > with. > > Well "buy something else" isn't exactly a very good solution to a problem > either. I cited two error messages and

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:20:36PM -0400, B. Szyszka wrote: > > Personally, I find it difficult to troubleshoot problems when the only > > data I'm given is "These things cost money". Give us something to work > > with. > > Well "buy something else" isn't exactly a very good solution to a problem

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread B. Szyszka
> Personally, I find it difficult to troubleshoot problems when the only > data I'm given is "These things cost money". Give us something to work > with. Well "buy something else" isn't exactly a very good solution to a problem either. I cited two error messages and asked what they could be cause

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, B. Szyszka wrote: : > > Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially since : > > the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to : > > run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the harddrive : > > itself

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread Stephen R. Gore
B. Szyszka wrote: > > > Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially > > > since > > > the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to > > > run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the harddrive > > > itself is the problem? > > T

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread B. Szyszka
> > Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially since > > the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to > > run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the harddrive > > itself is the problem? > The surest test would be to use it w

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread Andrew Hately
"B. Szyszka" wrote: > > Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially since > the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to > run a check on the harddrive that could prove whether or not the harddrive > itself is the problem? The surest test would

RE: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-28 Thread B. Szyszka
> That's *usually*¹ a sign that your hard disk is about to die on you. Do a > backup, buy a new drive, and copy the stuff over to that one. Well I can't afford to just go out and get a new harddrive, especially since the two that I have no have more than enough space. Is there a way to run a check

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-27 Thread Stephen R. Gore
peter karlsson wrote: > B. Szyszka: > > > I've reinstalled Debian to try to get a cleaner setup going, but am > > running into some error messages: > > hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } > > That's *usually*¹ a sign

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError

1999-09-27 Thread peter karlsson
B. Szyszka: > I've reinstalled Debian to try to get a cleaner setup going, but am > running into some error messages: > hdb: write_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } That's *usually*¹ a sign that your hard disk is about to die on