Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Mar 1996 09:50:39 +0000 | From | Liam Hudson <> | Subject | Re: Problems with EIDE driver (I think) |
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Axel Kohlmeyer wrote: > > > > > 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 differen > > ce. > seems like your first harddrive ist dying :-(. i've seen a lot of those > messages before i replaced my old 105Meg Seagate with a newer (and bigger) one. > > make a backup of the filesystems on hda ASAP! > > Cheers, > Axel. > ========================================================================= > Axel Kohlmeyer email: axel.kohlmeyer@chemie.uni-ulm.de > Abteilung fuer Theoretische Chemie Universitaet Ulm D-89069 Ulm/Donau > =========================================================================
You could be right.
The only problem with this suggestion is that the HD NEVER hangs under (and I hate to say this) windows 95 or windows 3.11 or windowsNT (3.51/4.0). I have only ever seen these problems under Linux.
Here, is another such error I've just got....
Mar 7 09:41:22 hudsonpc kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Mar 7 09:41:22 hudsonpc kernel: ide0: reset: master: error (0xd0?); slave: failed
If it is my hard drive then I have a 5 years warranty on it. But how could a prove that it is the hard drive at fault ??
Thanks
Liam Hudson
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