On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 11:39:54AM +0530, Girish Kamath typed:
> Couple of my Linux servers give the following message on the console
> constantly.
>
> hda: status timeout : status=0xd0 {Busy}
> hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
> ide0 : reset success
This is the standard DMA hang problem. man hdparm (and read the list
archives for a fix), or better still, upgrade your OS - this is fixed as
of Redhat 6.1 (assuming you are using redhat) and contemporary distros.
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com
ADA, n.:
Something you need only know the name of to be an Expert in
Computing. Useful in sentences like, "We had better develop an
ADA awareness."
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