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SubjectProblems with EIDE driver (I think)
Hi,

I have been using two EIDE drives with Linux for quite a while and have noticed a persistant
problem. Under heavy load the drive assigned to /dev/hda sometimes hangs, that is the hard
drive light stays on and the system enventually crashs.

Looking at /var/log/messages reveals persistant hard drive errors of the form:

Mar 6 09:11:53 hudsonpc kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Mar 6 09:11:53 hudsonpc kernel: ide0: reset: success

This is always with /dev/hda never /dev/hdb/

Playing around with the setting using hdparm does not seem to make any difference.

I have found that this effect has persisted even through a change in motherboard
(from Micronics with CMD640 to Intel Zapaa with dual intel PIIX). I have also tried
using two harddrives on one controller, and one controller per hard drive. (there are
two intel PIIX's on a Zappz motherboard).

Can anyone please help me. These crashes are severely reducing my productivity when using Linux !!

Thanks

Liam hudson
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