Re: What is happening to my harddrive?

[Paul Morgan <paulswm@earthlink.net>]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 08:38:29 +0000, Anim Asante wrote:

> Hi All, 
> 
> Whenever I switch on my machine and, from time to
> time, I get the following message on the screen: 
>    hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE 
>    ide0: reset: success 
>    hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {busy} 
> 
> What does this mean and how can I solve the problem? 
> 
> Regards, 
> Anim 
> 
> 
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I found this in like two minutes using google:

http://www.linuxsa.org.au/mailing-list/2001-04/358.html

Whether it'll help or not, I don't know.  But if you google on the error
message you'll get over 800 hits to look through.

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....................paul

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