[ale] ide reset

[James Kinney]

15G Maxtors hard drives are no longer being made due to a heat problem.
You might be able to get some better life from it by adding cooling. But
plan on a new hard drive soon.

 On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, C I wrote:

> 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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