Re: [Syllable-developer] 0.6.6-devel install failure

[Daniel G. <da...@fp...>]

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 16:27 -0700, Bill Sanders wrote:

> 
> 1:kernel::ata_cmd_thread : Error: DMA transfer timeout Control 0x9
> Status 0x24 Devstatus 0x50!
> 1:kernel::ata_cmd_thread : Error: DMA transfer timeout Control 0x9
> Status 0x20 Devstatus 0x58!
> 

Just a word of warning:  This kind of error is frequently indicative of
a dying hard drive, or bad cabling.  Does the drive work correctly on
another OS?  Does the BIOS report SMART errors, and if not, can you run
a SMART check on it from another OS?

It could also be a bug in the DMA engine in Syllable, but it's nice to
rule out hardware first...

Dan