I would suggest you to backup your data soon. The error might be either due to several reasons. Either your drive is starting to fail (you shall also get log lines with the sector that can not be reached). Another posibility is a wrongly defined partition table (maybe a partition is bigger than the disk) It could be possible that you are pushing the drive to a DMA mode it does not support At last, I think it might be an IDE cable/connector problem regards Ariel Philip B Cook escribió:
Apologies guys, I know this is the wrong list, but am unsure which list to use.
I only subscribe at present to SUSE Security.
Please point me in the right area.
I am generating the following errors ..
hdb: dma_init: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} hdb: dma_init: error=0x84 {DriveStatusError BadCRC} ide: failed opcode was : unknown
I get about 7 or 8 of these when transfering sustained data from the linux machine to a Windows machine using SAMBA. After these errors the linux machine freezes completely forcing a hard RESET to clear it.
I have two physical hard drives hda, hdb (both 120MB Western Digital drives) configured using LVM. The LVM contains my \home directories, which contain the files I am trying to transfer.
The system has run for over a year without problems.
I have run the DOS based WD diagnostics on the drive and it reports no errors.
Any thing you can suggest.
Philip