On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
> I've got a fully pnp system, with a seagate 2.1 gig drive and a Creative
> Labs CD420 cd drive on the first ide (ide0) channel. I've been letting
> the bios auto-detect everything (what's a pnp bios for, anyway ... :) ),
> and sometimes, at seemingly random times, I get the following error,
> under kernelversions 2.0.27 and 2.0.30.
>
> hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 {DriveReady Seekcomplete DataRequest}
> hda: drive not ready for command
> ide0: reset: success
>
> ^
> this | scrolls on the screen, and just repeats ad infinitum. The machine
> is essentially frozen; the only way I've found to fix it is to hit the
> case-mounted reset button.
I suggest that your try adding the folowing to your /etc/lilo.conf file,
then rerun lilo:
append = "ide0=noautotune"
For further details see the bootprompt HOWTO.
> The error seems _not_ to happen under Windoze, and doesn't seem to be
> triggered by anything I can lay a finger on (not launching a particular
> application, for example). I remember hearing about a problem with LBA
> mode, so I switched to a different mode, but then I can't boot... lilo
> just prints
>
> LI
>
> and freezes (tho sometimes CTRL-ALT-DEL still works).
>
> Any clues?
>
> Will
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