On Saturday 13 September 2008 08:42:22 Edd Barrett wrote:

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> Hi,

>

> Just got a thinkpad x40 on ebay, and I had some problems with it.

>

> Any "real work" (building/untarring) was causing soft errors:

>

> wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout

> 	type: ata

> 	c_bcount: 16384

> 	c_skip: 0

> pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21

> wd0a: device timeout reading fsbn 2230936 of 2230936-2230967 (wd0 bn

> 2230999; cn 147 tn 132 sn 43), retrying

[snip]

Thats a bad hard disk.  I've gotten used laptops, but have always changed

the disk out for a new one.  Sometimes errors like this disappear, but do

not trust it, replace it.  Newegg here in the US is a good place.
--STeve Andre'