Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels

["Jaakko Niemi" <liiwi@lonesom.pp.fi>]

>> 
>> BTW, I have configured it down to one single error message that I can't
>> seem to shake:
>> 
>> hdc: write_intr: status=0xff { Busy }
>> ide: reset: success
>> 
>> This is what is leading me to believe that the driver is either attempting
>> a transaction before an earlier one completed ( is the drive attempting an
>> internal prefetch? ) or it timed out waiting for the previous command to
>> complete.

 Something like that. I had today the same problem with Intel SE440BX 
 motherboard and a Fujitsu 2gig udma drive. I changed the drive to a 
 Quantum 3,2 gig one and it went away.

 Seems to be a problem with the harddisk.

	--j