On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:01:55PM +0000, Steve Fosdick wrote:
I am guessing from this that one of the disks is on its way out, but the question is which one? The hdb mentioned above isn't a guide as the kernel also logs DMA timeouts for hda too.
I had this with my IBM disk recently, you could try running badblocks on your disks to see if they have duff sectors or I used this http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm (non-free software) from IBM to test my disk, they don't fully support non-IBM disks but say that they can do a certain amount of testing etc. When I used this software it detected some bad sectors and reallocated them after a low level format and the disk appears to be ok again now *fingers crossed*
You may want to give it a try anyhow. The output it gives is very simple to understand compared to the linux tools, well the linux tools may be easy to interpret the data from but I was getting worried that the disk was about to die entirely and of course you only ever install these things about 2 minutes before the disk catches fire ;)
Adam