Re: IDE DMA errors

[Jesse Keating <hosting j2solutions net>]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 14:21, Warren Togami wrote:
> Is this truly always a hardware problem?
>
> Just confirming.

Even though I answered this in #redhat, I'll answer again (Hi I'm ender).

Most often, it is due to a cable/harddrive physical error.  It can be caused 
by a DMA incompatability between the drive/chipset and kernel.  If you 
disable DMA for the drive, do you experience any other problems (aside from 
it being very slow)?  What happens when you move this disk to another system?

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