Hardware (harddisk) failure (dma timeout error, dma_timer_expiry)
By jeltsch on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 21:40A while ago our server seems to have a hard disk failure as the following error messages kept coming up: hda: dma timeout error: [...] hda: dma_timer_expiry: [...] We exchanged the 20 GB HD against my old Mac's 4.7 GB HD and reinstalled the system. A friend of mine tried the "broken" 20GB HD on a Windows system and said it works fine.