I don't know if this will help, but, check the Master/Slave settings on
your Hard Drive and all other IDE devices (such as an IDE CD-ROM) that you
may have. The new motherboards have two IDE ports and each IDE port can
support two devices. For the port to identify one device from the other,
each device has to be jumpered as Master or Slave. With most computer
setups, the hard drive will be installed on the Primary IDE port as Master
and the IDE CD-ROM is installed on the Secondary IDE port as Master.
Since they are on different ports, its okay for both to be master. But,
if you happened to move the IDE CD-ROM to the Primary port, along with
your hard drive, without changing the jumper, then both are set to master
on the same IDE port - this is bad. To fix it, change the jumper setting
of the IDE CD-ROM to Slave.
-Rod
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Jerome Gasperi wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've the following problem with my hard drive:
> Each time i "strongly" access to my drive (during
> an fsck or a big rpm install) i have message like
>
> hda: irq timeout (busy)
> ide0 reset
>
> I change my hard drive, and it does the same. I try my
> hardrive on another computer, and it does the same...
>
> I think that is a BIOS problem but i'm not sure
>
> Any help would be really appreciate!
>
>
> Regards
>
> Jerome
>
>
> PS: I've a RedHat 5.1 with kernel 2.0.35. I've update the
> kernel for Ultra-DMA.
> I've a PII-266 running on a ABIT-LX6 motherboard with 64Mb RAM
> My Hardrive is a 4.2 Gb UDMA Samsung
>
