Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:32:30 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: DMA disabled and busy errors |
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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. -- mlord@pobox.com
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