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SubjectRe: The never enfind DRDY saga
On Thu, 08 May 2008 19:20:58 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> J.A. Magallón wrote:
> > Hi all...
> >
> > I'm getting again my friendly DRDY errors, this time on the new disk I got
> > to replace the old one (that fortunately was still under warranty...).
> > This is a brand new disk, it came perfectly packaged...
> > Now it is not a Seagate, but a WD:
>
> Note that DRDY is not an error:
>
> http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages
>
> But moreover, for Serial ATA, timeouts are generally due to platform
> problems, irq problems, or driver problems. When we see timeouts, we
> generally do not look at the hard drive as the primary cause.
>
> Have you gone through the debugging process for irq problems -- turning
> off ACPI, noapic, etc.?
>

Thanks, will look at that page and see if I can debug some more info.

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