Re: Old hdd and cdrom errors at bootup

[Peter Billson <pete@elbnet.com>]

Deboo,
  This is normal behavior. You have the secondary IDE controller enabled
in your BIOS. 

  Linux is probing to find out what drive(s) are on your secondary IDE
controller. Since there are none, the IRQ probe fails.

  If you do not want these errors, simply disable the secondary IDE in
your BIOS.  You can also safely leave it enabled. It just slows the boot
process down a bit.

Pete
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Deboo wrote:
> 
> I had 2 hard disks and one cd drive of which I remove one hard disk and
> the cd drive (they were not there when I installed debian too, had
> added them later). But now when booting, I get timeouts for them:
> 
> hda: SAMSUNG SV0401H, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
> hdc: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
> hdc: no response (status = 0x0a)
> hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
> hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
> hdd: no response (status = 0x0a), resetting drive
> hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
> hdd: no response (status = 0x0a)
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> 
> I commented any lines in /etc/fstab about both of them but still I get
> them. What is causing these errors? Why is debian trying to access them or
> mount them at boot when they aren't there in fstab?
> 
> Regards,
> Deboo
> 
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