Anyway, I have had a number of problems already with the Samsung
VA34323A hard disk, and one or two on the CDROM too (just changed from a
Momitsu 24Max to a Samsung SCR3231E).
On the hard disk I've been getting a number of these (typing from memory
now cos the machine's not in front of me):
kernel: hda: status error, status =0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequest}
hda: disabling DMA
ide0: reset success
(Also got a failure last night on the SCR3231E but can't remember the
exact text of that, except that it was quite different, but oh well,
shdve written it down before leaving this morning :-)
Mboard is a "PC-Chips M715", LX chipset, PII-266, 64MB 10ns SDRAM. I
didn't measure the IDE cable but it didn't LOOK awfully long.
Usually within about 30mins of boot-time I can trigger one of the
hard-disk errors, last night the first occurrence was due to a
"makewhatis -w", or at least *during* that command. On the other hand,
the first I ever saw was during RH5.1 installation (argh) and cos I was
worried, I did several kernel rebuilds without any sign of error.
This has me puzzled. I know it's not the uptodate kernel, but I didn't
see probs with this kernel on other PC's before they got upgraded.
Should I be worried about these messages ?
The BIOS is SMART aware and says the disk is OK, for what that's
worth...
I'd hate to have to leave DMA disabled on that drive if that's what is
causing the trouble, cos it manages 10MB/s in DMA, and only 3MB/s in PIO
:(((
cheers
Neil
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