(Fwd) "no DRQ after issuing WRITE"

[jpglutting@cochrane.es]

Hi Everyone,

I have just installed Potato on an old P233. I put it on a new 17GB 
UDMA drive (Seagate), which the bios does not recognize 
correctly. It works fine with kernel 2.2.17, but I get the folloing 
message from time to time:

hda: status timeout: state=0xd0 { Busy }
hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
ide0: reset: success

normally when I am doing some intensive disk access (like 
updatedb, for example). If I boot from a floppy with kernel 2.0.36, 
this does not happen.

Any information at all would be helpful, but my specific question is 
this - Is this a problem with the 2.2.17 kernel, working with an old
bios/motherboard (I also installed the 2.2.17 kernel patched for 
UDMA disks, but this has not helped...)? Is this some type of disk 
failure that the 2.0.36 kernel does not report, but that the new 
kernel does? Is there a way to deal with this in software, or should I 
think about returning the hard drive?

Many Thanks,

JP

Montse Rue
JP Glutting
jpglutting@cochrane.es