The following is  liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer
powersave BIOSs
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Thanks Marvin,

        I went into the Power Management settings and disabled them all and
sure enough problems have disappeared.  Now if I could just get it to make
coffee in the morning...

Thanks again!

Ben

> > Good Morning,
> > 
> >         Has anyone ever encountered an error like this?
> > 
> > hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > ide0: reset: success
> > 
> On a Compaq 486 laptop, that type of message appeared under Linux
> until I went into the Setup (at power on) and disabled the Option like:
>       "the drive go to sleep after n minutes without use" 
> Perhaps there is an energy spacer option enabled in your setup BIOS?
> There are kernel build options affecting this, but I have no experience
> with them yet.  Let us know when you work this out.
> 
> MarvS

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