"Bad magic number"

[Keith Morse]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Edwin Humphries wrote:

> Tobias,
> 
> Yes, thanks, that worked. But now I have lots of error messages of 
> the format:
> "dma=intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> dma_intr: error=0x40 { UnrecoverableError }, LBAsect=nnnnn, 
> sector=xxxxx, end_request: I/O error, dev 04:41 (hdb), sector=xxxxx"
> 
> Does this really mean unrecoverable error, or is does it mean that 
> the bad sector is being added to the bad sector file, and that the 
> rest of the drive is OK?
> 

Some just crawled out of the back of my memory when seeing "status=0x51".  
If this is an IDE drive are you using the correct cable?  80 pin conductor 
instead of a 40 pin?

Also you might try running "badblocks" against the drive to see what it 
turns up.