IDE error during BOOT
 

Hi

I get this error during boot on my SUSE 10.1 webserver ?

What does it mean ?

<4>hdc: dma_intr: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
<4>ide: failed opcode was: unknown
<4>hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
<4>hdc: dma_intr: error=0x00 { }
<4>ide: failed opcode was: unknown
<4>hdc: recal_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
<4>hdc: recal_intr: error=0x00 { }
<4>ide: failed opcode was: unknown
<4>hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
<4>hdc: dma_intr: error=0x00 { }
<4>ide: failed opcode was: unknown
<6>hdc: DMA disabled
<4>ide1: reset: success


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I found a few links - I don't know if they help:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg00934.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/atara.../msg00013.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ad.php?t=46665
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=136749
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermai...05.1/0432.html
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermai...er/018789.html

Nevertheless try to install smartctl and check your hdd for bad sektors just to be sure...

Um... from my many years of watching drives die... this has all of the characteristics of a failing hard disk (physical errors). I would make a backup immediately... maybe play around with it... see if you can correct it, but by all means please fully expect this drive to completely bork at anytime.

Knowing suse the way i do, dmesg will always show these error messages for CDROM and DVD-ROM devices when there is no media inserted. Is /dev/hdc a cdrom?