On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 01:29:48PM +0500, you wrote:
> > Recently my hard disk has started giving out some error messages,
> > which I am not able to decode at all. The messages are displayed
> > as soon as I start doing some disk related activity.
> > Following are the msgs. :
> > 
> > + ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
> > + hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
> > + hda: drive not ready for command
> > 
> > Also, my machine becomes tooooooo slow.

Recompiling the kernel with DMA enabled helped me.

TIA,
Kapil Bhalla 

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