Re: hda: irq timeout:

[Marcin Owsiany <porridge@pandora.info.bielsko.pl>]

On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 04:08:29PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this just happened to me while while the daily cron was running, I tried
> a connection:
> 
> h0rus:~$ pon provider
> hda: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
> h0rus:~$
> 
> and the connection request was resumed, and got back to the prompt.  I
> recall this is just got to do with the system not being able to read the
> disk for a moment but, is it normal that it's echoed on screen?
> 
> I got no messages from cron though.  Should I worry?

I don't think so, this is normal since this is not a program message, but
direct kernel message, so it should go to klog and to the console, if
console log level is high enough.

I would worry however about the cause of the message... it could be nothing,
but could also mean that your hard drive's life is coming to an end...
BTW such messages begin showing up on my console more frequently as well.

hope this helps

Marcin

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