Drive is toast, DMA requires more work, bearings are probably bad.. Run
a smart check on it. http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/
--Matt
Eben King wrote:
> I started getting ATA errors, which caused xmms2d to crash, then got
> worse and caused the OS to go down. While I'm waiting, I did some
> experimentation and found that I can run with no errors in kernel
> 2.6.24-19-generic with "ide-nodma" (albeit with significantly lower
> disk performance). (The kernel I mainly use is 2.6.24-21-generic). I
> have a PCI ATA card (no RAID, but two ATA ports) that I'll try tonight
> to see if it helps.
>
> In the meantime, has anyone heard of ATA weirdness with this
> particular kernel (-21)?
>
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