At 10:46 AM 11/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I have an IDE hard drive (8gig). I have it partitioned with a 300meg swap
>and a 4 gig linux fs partition. The remaining 4 gig is unpartitioned as
>of yet (perhaps that is my problem). At any rate, I am getting this
>message shortly after boot and periodicly through out the day:
>
>hda: status timeout. status=0xd0 {Busy}
>hda: no DRQ after issue WRITE
>ide0: reset: success
>
>It just pops up on the console. How would I trouble shoot this? Does it
>appear to be a danger?
Leaving part of a harddisk unformatted is an excellent idea, if the space
is not needed.
It will NOT be cause for errors.
I think Linux swap space should be 128MB max. You can have multiple 128MB
swap partitions.
>I am running rh60 on an AMD processor
>
>Thanks
>David
>
>
---Herman Aa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From a mountaintop on Cebu island, Philippines.
