From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Michlmayr Subject: Kernel panic on PC with broken hard drive, after DMA errors Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 03:29:21 +0000 Message-ID: <20060309032920.GD10330@deprecation.cyrius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from sorrow.cyrius.com ([65.19.161.204]:10249 "EHLO sorrow.cyrius.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161007AbWCID3c (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 22:29:32 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org My laptop hard drive recently died (or is in the process of dying). HP wanted me to do some more tests before sending me a replacement, so I tried booting Linux again today. I got lots of DMA errors, which was really to be expected, but then I got a kernel panic. While I'd not blame the kernel when a panic occurs with broken RAM or CPU, I'm sure sure the kernel should panic just because of a broken IDE drive. I posted a picture of the panic at http://cyrius.com/tmp/ide_panic.jpg Is this something that can be fixed or is my hardware really so broken that the kernel cannot deal with it? -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/