Re: Trapping Errant DMA Disk Ops

2006-10-11 Thread Nico
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:30:45AM +0200, David Baron wrote: log entry: kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 readers of this list will begin to think that this is my solution to every problem... well lately it has been! Check the powersupply. [

Re: Trapping Errant DMA Disk Ops

2006-10-11 Thread David Baron
> > readers of this list will begin to think that this is my solution to > > every problem... well lately it has been! Check the > > powersupply. Apparently, after HD's, powersupplies are the most failure > > prone part of system. And they don't generally fail catastrophically, > > but slowly slide

Re: Trapping Errant DMA Disk Ops

2006-10-11 Thread Bill Smith
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:30:45AM +0200, David Baron wrote: 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

Re: Trapping Errant DMA Disk Ops

2006-10-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:30:45AM +0200, David Baron wrote: > 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