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Re: Harddrive/IDE channel error



On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:

> I've got a fully pnp system,  with a seagate 2.1 gig drive and a Creative
> Labs CD420 cd drive on the first ide (ide0) channel.  I've been letting
> the bios auto-detect everything (what's a pnp bios for,  anyway ... :) ),
> and sometimes,  at seemingly random times,  I get the following error,
> under kernelversions 2.0.27 and 2.0.30.
> 
> hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 {DriveReady Seekcomplete DataRequest}
> hda: drive not ready for command
> ide0: reset: success
> 
>      ^
> this | scrolls on the screen,  and just repeats ad infinitum.  The machine
> is essentially frozen;  the only way I've found to fix it is to hit the
> case-mounted reset button.

I suggest that your try adding the folowing to your /etc/lilo.conf file,
then rerun lilo:

append = "ide0=noautotune"

For further details see the bootprompt HOWTO.

> The error seems _not_ to happen under Windoze,  and doesn't seem to be
> triggered by anything I can lay a finger on (not launching a particular
> application,  for example).  I remember hearing about a problem with LBA
> mode,  so I switched to a different mode,  but then I can't boot... lilo
> just prints 
> 
> LI 
> 
> and freezes (tho sometimes CTRL-ALT-DEL still works).  
> 
> 						Any clues?
> 
>                      					Will
> 
> 			        harpo@udel.edu
>                		      lowe@eecis.udel.edu
> 			http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~lowe/
> 
> 
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