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DateMon, 12 Oct 1998 16:46:10 +1300
FromChris Wedgwood <>
SubjectRe: IDE status timeout 0x80 { busy }
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 01:12:21AM +0100, k3040e4@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at wrote:

> I've finally made up my mind to report this one, though I'm aware
> that it could also be a hardware problem.> > I'm getting IDE disks timeouts which cause my machine to hang. This
> usually happens during very heavy swapping activity, but it can
> also happen when copying large amounts of data (some 100MB).

Your poor little IDE driver is getting overworked... I see them too
here with IDE drives.

Its worse in 2.1.x, probably because it makes the driver work harder.

I fixed it by moving to SCSI.




-cw

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