dma timeout error

thetroyv · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:33 am Post subject: dma timeout error

im using gentoo kernel 2.6 i believe... well when i start up my computer one of the first things that happens after starting gentoo booting is a dma timeout error of the main drive:

/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:<4>hda: dma_timer expiry: dma status == 0x61
hda: DMA timeout error
hda:dma timeout error: status = 0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
p1 p2 p3 p4 <<4> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status ==0x61
hda: DMA timout error
hda dma timeout error: status = 0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
p5<p4> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status ==0x61

there are several ponts where it waits some time... but after a while it finishes booting up fine with no other errors.

any help would be great.
thanks
troy

oKtosiTe · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:26 pm Post subject:

Looks like your drive might be getting ready for a failure. You may want to consider running a filecheck that verifies your disks surface. The method for this differs, depending on the filesystem you're using, but in general you should make sure the partition you're checking isn't mounted when you check it.
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thetroyv · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject:

getting ready or a failure? hmm so how exactly do you run this check on the disk?
(i have several partitions, i have a fat16 windows boot, ntfs windows, linux swap, linux boot(ext3) and linux root (ext3)

thetroyv · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject:

oyes i remember now for windows you right click and do the "check this disk for errors"
will this check the whole disk, windows and linux partitions? even if it did wouldnt it be good to run two disk checkers (after all its microsoft software...)

oKtosiTe · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:46 am Post subject:

Windows has the nasty habit of calling partitions and filesystems alike disks. A disk check will check only one partition.

I advise you to run, from a livecd, because the filesystem may NOT be mounted during the check, the following command:

thetroyv · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject:

well i downloaded the manufacturers disk checking ustility and that gave it an ok...
so could it be like a jumper setting or something?

thetroyv · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject:

any ideas?

thetroyv · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 1:41 am Post subject:

wow thats gonna take a looooooooooong time... is there any way to do a faster check? any other ideas about what the dma timout error could be? jumper settings?