Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Mar 1996 09:16:26 +0000 | From | Liam Hudson <> | Subject | Problems with EIDE driver (I think) |
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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
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