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- To: stodolsk@erols.com (marvin stodolsky)
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]
- From: Ben John Fornshell <ben@cstd-alpha.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:12:42 -0500 (EST)
- Message-id: <199810272012.PAA30834@cstd-alpha.nrl.navy.mil>
- In-reply-to: <363582D6.585944F8@erols.com> from "marvin stodolsky" at Oct 27, 98 03:22:46 am
Thanks Marvin,
I went into the Power Management settings and disabled them all and
sure enough problems have disappeared. Now if I could just get it to make
coffee in the morning...
Thanks again!
Ben
> > Good Morning,
> >
> > Has anyone ever encountered an error like this?
> >
> > hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > ide0: reset: success
> >
> On a Compaq 486 laptop, that type of message appeared under Linux
> until I went into the Setup (at power on) and disabled the Option like:
> "the drive go to sleep after n minutes without use"
> Perhaps there is an energy spacer option enabled in your setup BIOS?
> There are kernel build options affecting this, but I have no experience
> with them yet. Let us know when you work this out.
>
> MarvS
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