Hi,
After installing RH 7.1 on a new hard disk, the following error message is displayed when the machine is booted:
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VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdb: DMA disabled ide0: reset: success Adding Swap: 530104k swap-space (priority -1)
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Is the message about BadCRC harmless or serious?
Sometime Today, Raju Bathija assembled some asciibets to say:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
You may have one of those buggy hard disks that you are warned about in the documentation - somewhere in ide.txt I think. Basically, dma in the 2.4 kernel has problems with some ide chipsets, and should be disabled.
Either do that through the kernel (recompile), or use hdparm in your rc.sysinit script:
/sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hda
Philip
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Philip S Tellis -
Raju Bathija