Re: [tlug] Potentially Dying Hard Disk Questions

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 18:02:56 +0600
"A. Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com> wrote:

> "hda: timeout waiting for DMA"
> then you probably have bad sectors on the drive.

In case of bad sectors you usually get a different kernel error for each
bad sector and the HD tries several times to access it. It not a DMA
timeout, though it can be involved.