Re: Big HD problems - How stuffed am I?
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:27:43PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Been having some problems with two of the HDs in one of my machines.
> Both are Quantum TMs (a 2.3 and a 3.2, i believe), both on the first IDE
> chanel.
>
> The drives will pause and make a funny noise (which is never a good
> sign, AFAIK). Then I'll get an error message, like the ones below.
>
> irq timeout: status=0x80 {Busy}
>
> hdb: read_intr: status=0xff {Busy}
>
> ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
>
[snip]
>
> Thanks,
>
> damon
>
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>
Damon,
I've also been having problems with a Quantum... this one is detected
as Quantum BIGFOOT_CY4320A. It was first installed as a Win95 drive.
Wasn't long before Windows started detecting errors at the beginning
of the drive, and it finally became unusable. I'm using it for linux
now. When I partitioned it, I created a junk partition of 100M at the
beginning (where the errors were occuring), then created a 500M root
partition after that. Then I deleted the first partition and created
the remaining ones after the root. This left 100M unused. I still
get error messages, occasionally, but it doesn't seem to be getting
any worse. FYI, the messages I get are:
hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdb: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
This is the second of these drives I've owned, and the second that's
given me problems like this. I've just about decided to stay clear
of Quantums.
Mike
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