Re: [SLUG] DMA off?

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue May 23 2006 - 17:58:16 EDT

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Kwan Lowe wrote:

>> I have two (identical) hard drives. Every night, I have a cron job that
>> cats /dev/hda > /dev/hdb . Lately I've been finding DMA off at the
>> conclusion of this copy. From last night (this morning) in
>> /var/log/messages:
>>
>> May 23 06:08:20 pc kernel: hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61
>> May 23 06:08:21 pc kernel: hdb: DMA timeout error
>> May 23 06:08:21 pc kernel: hdb: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>> May 23 06:08:21 pc kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>> May 23 06:08:21 pc kernel: hda: DMA disabled
>> May 23 06:08:21 pc kernel: hdb: DMA disabled
>> May 23 06:08:21 pc kernel: ide0: reset: success
>>
>> Is it time to replace that drive?
>
> I have about twenty drives running throughout the house and whenever I see
> that message it's always been a matter of time (usually days) before the
> drive fails.

Which drive, then, hdb? Or do I need to put them on separate busses and see
where the error goes? Could it be the motherboard controller? 

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