Re: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA

[ktb <x.y.f@home.com>]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:09:13PM +1200, Lex McPhail wrote:
> What does the following message mean:
> 
> hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
> hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> 
> It is coming up on my Debian 2.2.18pre21 potato installation quite regularly 
> since I have compiled up a kernel to make the system a firewall + ipmasq 
> computer.
> 
> I cant remember it coming up when I was running the kernel I initially 
> downloaded: Debian 2.2.18pre21-compact.
> 
> hdc is a QUANTIUM FIREBALL ST2.1A
> 
> Anyone got any ideas where I should go from here?
> 

Usually this is a sign the drive is going bad.  I would recommend
pulling off any info you want to save and then try your old kernel and
see if the errors still exist.  Take a look in the archives I have seen
people tweak with hdparm and straiten things out but ymmv.
kent
  
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