DMA errors, crash?
Matt Patterson
matt at v8zman.com
Tue May 3 18:34:05 UTC 2005
Start by changing your ribbon cable, or sata cable and switching power
connectors to a different one. I had a power connector come loose once
and it would cause the drive to power cycle. I have also had faulty
ribbon cables that caused all kinds of weird stuff.
Matt
Chuk Goodin wrote:
>I have suddenly been getting a lot of DMA errors, including some that
>say things like DriveReady SeekComplete. These errors bring the
>machine to a complete halt. Also, a couple of times when I tried to
>boot from CD (CDs that had previously been bootable and which I also
>later booted from successfully), I had no luck.
>
>Is my (nearly new Maxtor) HD dying? Is there some setting that could
>fix this? I'm running Hoary on an ABIT BH-6 mobo if that matters.
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