just a few ideas..... is your hd the slave or master, and if the master is there a slave connected to the same cable? Is the ide interface connected to the ISA or PCI bus? Belive it or not some pci motherboards still have the ide interface connected to the ISA side! (some have only the secondary interface connected to the ISA for use with slower CD rom drives). My pc has the TX chipset and both interfaces are pci. The hd is the only device on interface 1, interface 2 has my CD and LS120 drives. What speed is your cpu? How much cache and dram. I have 64MB dram and 512K cache with a K6-233.
I would think that the ide interface has a ready/busy status and the driver would wait for the drive, but maybe the drive is giving an advanced ready signal? ---George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have managed to significantly reduce the error rate by turning OFF > everything in the bios settings that might improve the performacne of IDE. > This includes read-ahead, multi, IDE-PCI bursting, etc. Then I turned the > items back on in hdparms. Now down to a half-dozen errors per day with > 2.0.35. I think some things were done after 2.0.32 to "improve" > performance of the IDE but I am going to have to diff the two drivers to > make sure. Something DEFINATELY changed between 2.0.32 and 2.0.33+. I > suspect that a delay between operations was shortened since most of my > errors appear to be that the drive is busy when a command to it is issued > meaning either that the ide driver does not wait long enough for a command > to complete or that it times out too quickly waiting for a command to > complete. > > Might be time to do some hacking on ide.c > > > On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > > I am using a maxtor udma 5.4GB drive on an intel TX (triton II) mb > > with a K6-233 cpu. I have run 2.0.33 and now are using 2.0.34 with no > > problems. Previously used a maxtor 2.0 gb udma drive, again no > > problems. > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > I get the same exact results with my PPro system (Intel 440FX chipset) > > and > > Maxtor 7.2GB UDMA drive. This even happens under the developmental > > kernel > > 2.1.122 which I use for the better SMP handling. I've asked questions > > before on newsgroups and such as to what could be causing this > > behavior, or > > if anybody else had even seen this kind of behavior, but never got any > > response. > > > > Sean > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > DO YOU YAHOO!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > George Bonser > > The Linux "We're never going out of business" sale at an FTP site near you! > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com