Re: Kernel panic on PC with broken hard drive, after DMA errors

[Robert Hancock]

Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> My laptop hard drive recently died (or is in the process of dying).
> HP wanted me to do some more tests before sending me a replacement, so
> I tried booting Linux again today.  I got lots of DMA errors, which
> was really to be expected, but then I got a kernel panic.  While I'd
> not blame the kernel when a panic occurs with broken RAM or CPU, I'm
> sure sure the kernel should panic just because of a broken IDE drive.
>
> I posted a picture of the panic at http://cyrius.com/tmp/ide_panic.jpg
> Is this something that can be fixed or is my hardware really so broken
> that the kernel cannot deal with it?

Probably is a genuine bug. These kinds of reports have come up a few 
times recently as I recall - it seems some of the error handling in the 
drivers/ide code isn't quite so robust..

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