Hi, I have this problem that has baffled me for a long time and can't seem to figure out what is going on. First, it started out that the system worked just fine. I did not change anything significant but slowly the problem showed up. The server, suddenly starts giving the message hda: status timeout, status=0x80 hda: status timeout, status=0x80 hda: druve not ready for command ide: reset timeout, status=0x80 I get this a bunch of times , but it is basically dead. Even reseting won't help, because it seems the hda is still non-responsive. I have to completely power-off for a couple of seconds. The problem increased in frequency and now does this three or more times a day! It always seems to happened right after I run a custom job that runs sort on a logfile in /var/log on the hour. I do not know if this is a related problem, but I have it hang almost always (no messages this time, just hang) when I am doing tar backup of hdd1, which is an ext2. Here is my system info: One harddrive at hda with all linux partitions on it. The wierd part (don't ask how it happened), is that all are under an extended partition: /dev/hda1 * 1 1245 10000431 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1 72 578277 83 Linux /dev/hda6 73 181 875511 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 182 599 3357553+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 600 843 1959898+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 844 1245 3229033+ 83 Linux Ihave a ABIT KA7 that has that VIA chipset for AMD and an AMD 650 Duron Slot A. I run LM8.0b2 that has most packages upgraded to the 8.0 final. My HDA is Maxtor 91021U2, 10GB UDMA66 drive. (Master IDE0) My CDROM is HDC and is 52X Creative. My HDD is a WD Caviar 23200 (a 3GB old HD) (Slave IDE1) Is it the motherboard, the harddrives? WHAT IS IT! TIA.
