[ale] ide reset

[Douglas Knudsen]

I had this problem with a WD HD.  Turned out the drive was bad.  When the
event occured, there was a loud clicking noise in the drive.  It was really
strange.  When the drive was in constant use, it worked fine.  If it sat for
an hour or so, whamo.

Viel Glucke!
DK

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of C I
-> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 12:28 PM
-> To: ale at ale.org
-> Subject: [ale] ide reset
->
->
-> My hard drive is kicking up error messages when being
-> left on for extended periods of time (i.e. 12 hours +)
-> the error message is basically to the effect:
->
-> hde: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
-> ide2: reset : unable to process command.
->
-> The machine at this point is locked up, and upon
-> rebooting the BIOS will not reconize the ATA/100 bus.
-> If I leave the machine off for a few moments then it
-> comes back up I sometimes have to repair the file
-> system but usually it is ok.  The machine is new and
-> the Hard Drive is a 15gig Maxtor.
-> I searched the archives and found I short thread on
-> the subject.  One suggestion was to replace the Hard
-> Drive, but I would rather not have to deal with that.
-> The last entry was to recompile the kernel (theirs
-> happened to be 2.4.1) and added DMA and PCI support.
-> They said that this fixed the process.  I am going to
-> try this as soon as my machine comes back on line.
->
-> I was wondering if any one else has had this trouble
-> and what they have tracked it down to.
->
-> CI
->
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