Re: [SLE] Slow.

I had the hard drive - cdrw slave configuration and changed it to hard drive - hard drive. This cut down the number of errors but did not stop it. As a note, I only get these errors on initial boot (apparently before it even gets into any run levels), and then never get any errors or have any problems after that. Jim 12/28/01 11:49:28 AM, Clayton Cornell wrote:

I have been getting the same DMA_INT errors starting with 7.2 (with the stock SuSE 7.2 kernel.. whatever that was) and again with 7.3 on the 2.4.10-4GB kernel.

Specifically... ----------------------------- Dec 28 18:40:18 linux kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Dec 28 18:40:18 linux kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } -----------------------------

This is not a unique problem. If you do a Google search with either of the errors, you will come up with lots of hits.. and lots of suggestions. The general agreement is hardware issues... although, I have to agree... I can't imagine that everyone's hardware is all failing at the same time... all over the world. Hmm that's one for the conspiracy theorists ;-)

I replaced the ribbon cables and that reduced the number of these errors in my log files, but did not eliminate them. I noted some postings suggesting that having a CDROM slaved to a HD may cause some of these errors.

C.

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This is the third or forth report which includes dma_intr errors. I really doubt that everyone's hardware is failing at the same time. My questions is wether everyone who are getting these errors are running the same kernel.

I get these errors on boot up and I am running the 2.4.16-4GB kernel.

Anyone else?

12/28/01 02:41:38 AM, "Jon" wrote:

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Speculation at this point, most of the kernels that are made by Hubert are sound, common source with the patches from Andrea and the other branches IA-64 Zseries etc). Anything for the IDE I suspect would be fom Andre Hedrick, and his code is usually sound, well he is the ATA guy :~)

So, my issues with IDE drives are bad HW, not SW.

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