brackenan
July 27th, 2009, 10:23 PM
Here’s what keeps flashing across the screen while loading…
[272.854943] ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[xxx.xxxxxx] ata2.00: error: { UNC }
[xxx.xxxxxx]ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[xxx.xxxxxx] ata2.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
[xxx.xxxxxx] ata2.00: cmd c8/00:08:a8:f8:50/00:00:00:00:00/e9 tag 0 dma 4096 in
the x's are all different numbers. The message repeats several times. Sometimes it says:
[400.467392] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 19537685 (<this number changes as it keeps scrolling across the screen)
^ (this number also changes)
After it's all done with this, it loads into the dialog boxes fine, but when it gets to partition box, it doesn't show a hard drive. I know this drive is fine, runs xp like a champ.
I've heard enabling the acpi=off and eed=on command on boot screen would solve this problem, but it still does the same thing and the last time I tried it, it just shut down on me!
I’m stumped…
It’s a Dell Latitude CPx, w/ Pentium III 750MHz cpu
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm not that new to Linux, but don't know alot about the commands and the real technical parts of it. I'm currently self-employed as an IT Technician, so I'm quite familiar with computers.
Thanks in advance!
Andrew
[272.854943] ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[xxx.xxxxxx] ata2.00: error: { UNC }
[xxx.xxxxxx]ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[xxx.xxxxxx] ata2.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
[xxx.xxxxxx] ata2.00: cmd c8/00:08:a8:f8:50/00:00:00:00:00/e9 tag 0 dma 4096 in
the x's are all different numbers. The message repeats several times. Sometimes it says:
[400.467392] Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 19537685 (<this number changes as it keeps scrolling across the screen)
^ (this number also changes)
After it's all done with this, it loads into the dialog boxes fine, but when it gets to partition box, it doesn't show a hard drive. I know this drive is fine, runs xp like a champ.
I've heard enabling the acpi=off and eed=on command on boot screen would solve this problem, but it still does the same thing and the last time I tried it, it just shut down on me!
I’m stumped…
It’s a Dell Latitude CPx, w/ Pentium III 750MHz cpu
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm not that new to Linux, but don't know alot about the commands and the real technical parts of it. I'm currently self-employed as an IT Technician, so I'm quite familiar with computers.
Thanks in advance!
Andrew