Hi,
Sorry for the delay - but this happened to me y-day; that was when I was
playing with hdparm settings in my rc.local.
This happened when my hdparm setting read:
/sbin/hdparm -c3 -d1 -X34 /dev/hda/sbin/hdparm -c3 -d1 -X34 /dev/hda
(hda being my hard disk device)
I changed it to
/sbin/hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 -m16 -a128 /dev/hda
and we lived happily ever after. I guess this happens when this settign
conflicts with your hardware. So if u think your hdd is not dma capable
comment out the hdparm parameter in your rc.local.
IMHO
Ashwin
Warning - Iam not a newbie; no guru either.
linux wrote:
> hi all,
> i have just installed "best linux" which has kernel version
> 2.2.13 . after installation i tried to mount my cdrom. it said
> hdb: timeout waiting for DMA.
>
> i waited for another 5 mins but nothing happened. the system sort of
> freezed, and i had press the reset button.
>
> can somebody tell me what the reason for this could be,
> thanks in advance
> regards
> harsha
>
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