On Friday 28 December 2001 11:48, James Bliss wrote: | 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? it means, unless something has changed tremendously since about 2.4.5, that your 80-conductor cable is faulty. it is a nondestructive problem -- your data are secure absent any other issues -- but a pain in the ass if you want everything in your machine to work perfectly. if you check /var/log/messages, you'll find that you're getting 'em more than just during boot. the solution is to get a really good 80-conductor cable, and then route it carefully. what constitutes carefully? btsom, because the idea is to avoid things that might generate signals that would degrade the signal between the drive and the mb/pci adapter card connection. in my experience, the cables shipped with drives without exception are not good; when i sprang $10 for a cable, the problem went away. -- dep There is sobbing of the strong, And a pall upon the land; But the People in their weeping Bare the iron hand; Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.