Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269621AbTHGRno (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:43:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270234AbTHGRmH (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:42:07 -0400 Received: from a.smtp-out.sonic.net ([208.201.224.38]:11662 "HELO a.smtp-out.sonic.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S270040AbTHGRlT (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 13:41:19 -0400 X-envelope-info: Newsgroups: local.ml.linux.kernel From: dalgoda@ix.netcom.com (Mike Castle) Subject: Re: IDE DMA problem with 2.6.0-test1 References: <200308061551.01571.sandersn@btinternet.com> Organization: House of Linux X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Path: not-for-mail Originator: nexus@thune.mrc.org (Mike Castle) Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:41:16 -0700 Message-ID: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 955 Lines: 22 In article , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >You can also install smartmontools (http://smartmontools.sf.net/) >and check your drives (if they support SMART of course). Point of interest: I just had a Maxtor drive go bad on me recently. Their diag tools caught it, as did my ear (made a nice clunking noise :-). But SMART didn't report a thing, and I looked hard too. :-/ mrc -- Mike Castle dalgoda@ix.netcom.com www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/