Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Apr 1999 09:07:31 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: DMA disabled and busy errors |
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On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:32:30AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > ... > > It works 99% of the time, just every now and then, perhaps once a day under > > light load, more often under heavier load, I get these: > > > > hda: timeout waiting for DMA > > hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > > ide0: reset: success > > I wouldn't worry about it then. Likely just a firmware (drive) bug. > Harmless. > > I've seen/had lots of drives with that behaviour. > MS-Win probably just retries the operation silently; > with linux, we let you know about spurious problems.
Windows probably doesn't see these errors -- they only show under heavy load. Linux 2.2.x produces these error much more often that 2.0.x, presumably because it drives the hardware harder...
-cw
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