[CentOS] hda dma seek errors

Mike Kercher
Wed, 03 Aug 2005 03:04:17 -0000

centos-bounces at centos.org <> scribbled on Tuesday, August 02, 2005 9:58
PM:

> I am getting occasional seek error on my boot drive.
> The messages are as follows:
>
> pshda: dma_intr: status = 0x51 { Drive ReadySeekComplete Error }
>   hda: dma_intr: error= 0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>   ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>
> Everything seems to be working fine but these errors do have
> me concerned.
>
> The last time they occurred I was created a fairly large cpio
> backup file in the '/tmp' directory.
>
> The drive has been checked via fsck, and any errors found
> were reported to be corrected.
>
> Should I take some kind of action on this, or just ignore the errors?


Try running smartctl -a /dev/hdx against the drive.

Mike