Re: /dev/hdd irq timeout?

[w trillich <will@pinncomp.net>]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> > hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > hdd: disabled DMA
> > ide1: reset: success
> > hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > ide1: reset: success
> > hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > ide1: reset: success
> 
> not necessarly i have a new IBM drive that has occasionally been
> showing those messages in the logs, however i noticed that everytime
> one of those occured the disk was spinning back up, after making a
> very slight click.  i got a hunch that somehow the power saving
> `feature' was turned on and used hdparm to instruct it to go into
> standby mode, and what do you know the exact same click sound, so i
> run ls -l / the drive spins back up and one of those timeout messages
> appear.  i ran /sbin/hdparm -S 0 /dev/hda which disables power saving,
> so far i have not had any more of these errors, though its only been a
> few days...

cool. i bet that was it.

how did you stumble across hdparm? it wasn't included when i
did my recent apt-get dist-upgrade (frozen)...