On Thursday 12 March 2009 05:19:37 pm David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Rajko M. wrote:
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 02:50:45 pm mukul wrote:
In the terminal window I get: HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
It seems that you have bad sectors on a hard disk.
I don't think so, that's should be just a hdparm or some such on a CD-ROM / DVD-Drive, which naturally does not support that ioctl, as it has no geometry.
You can simpley ignore that message.
I mixed that with other messages, but this still doesn't completely exclude hardware problem. Though, that might be indication where to look for a problem. Something is generating that message when Kaffeine is used. tail -f /var/log/messages and start Kaffeine, should give more information. Besides, running smartctl would not hurt. Mukul is using console anyway. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org