2.2r2 installs but hda busy

["Paul Tod Rieger" <prie@abl.com>]

When I recently tried potato, it complained about the 4GB harddrive in a
466MHz celeron system (eMachine eTower 466is):

hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}
hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
ide0: reset success

after disk intensive operations (like booting up).  I then swapped disks
with a 400MHz system with a 6GB-slink drive (eTower 400id), which had run
without a complaint for a year:

I put the 4GB-potato drive into the 400MHz system and still saw the
messages.

I put the 6GB-slink drive into the 466MHz system and didn't see any error
messages.  I left the 6GB-slink drive in the 466MHz system and did a fresh
install of potato on it today.  Now the error messages are back.

The problem seems to be potato.  Any ideas on how to fix it?


Other messages in kern.log:

Linux version 2.2.18pre21 (herbert@arnor) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Sat Nov
18 18:47:15 EST 2000

PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later
     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio

hda: ST36421A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

hda: ST36421A, 6150MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache


(FWIW, when I installed potato on 4GB/466MHz via CD, I did see:

hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
ATAPI device hdc:
   Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
   Power on, reset or hardware reset occurred -- (asc=0x29, ascq=0x00)

I didn't see this when I installed potato on the 6GB via ftp/http.)

Thanks for any help!

Tod
abl.com