Hard disk access errors

[hbbk]

hi

Everytime I try to do an 'aptitude something' my PC freeze and then I get an IO Error, here is what I found in kernel log that seems relevant :

ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata4.00: BMDMA stat 0x65
ata4.00: cmd c8/00:08:be:70:29/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 4096 in
     res 51/40:00:c1:70:29/00:00:00:00:00/e1 Emask 0x9 (media error)
ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata4.00: error: { UNC }
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata4.01: configured for UDMA/100
ata4: EH complete
APIC error on CPU0: 02(02)

Is my hard disk really dead or is there something I could do ("standard" fsck do not seem to help a lot)

thanks in advance

[dibl]

Re: Hard disk access errors

I think there is a "nodma" boot option available -- if the only problem is DMA performance, maybe that would help.