-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Carey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The problem I am having is, after diskdruid and selecting
>packages it then starts on its merry way by attempting to format the newly
>created paritions however It takes 20 mins to format 800 MB and when I go
>[Alt + F4] I get repeating messages as below,
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><4>hda:timeout waiting for DMA
><4>ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout funct only:14
><4>hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}
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>Disk: 4.3GB Quantum Bigfoot
>6.1 /var/log/messages reports it as a "Quantum Bigfoot_CY4320A, ATA Disk"
>I bought it in March 1998
>
>Does anyone here have some wisdom they would like to share about
experiences
>similar?
Possibly it's the Bigfoot. They are known to be very slow. I have a
Bigfoot, a 1.2G I think, and it takes well over half an hour to format when
doing a Linux install, yet has no bad sectors.
It's weird, but thats the way it is.
Now in your error messages you have
<4>hda:timeout waiting for DMA
so possibly some sort of DMA problem, wrong speed, not turned on?
Wayne
