dma error on startup

[Corey Taylor]

Thanks, I do believe that the secondary controller may be disabled in
the BIOS, I will try and enable it and see what happens. Thanks.

Corey

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 01:53, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:22, Corey Taylor wrote:
> > Hi all. I get the following message on startup:
> >  
> > Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> > hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> [etc]
> >  
> > Is this a cause for concern. Does this mean I have a bad hard drive?
> 
> I used to get this all the time with RH9.  It turned out that my bios
> settings had something to do with it.  In my bios I had the secondary
> controller disabled, or something like that, so I re-enabled it, and the
> messages went away.
> 
> Sorry I can't be more specific, it was a while ago!
> 
> HTH,