Re: ide drive busy - is this "dangerous"?
Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Sat, 27 Dec 1997 23:00:04 +0000
>hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>hdc: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
>ide1: reset: success
>
>Do that kind of messages mean that something is wrong?
>(besides hardware being slow?)
>(that's too much like the all-too-common-aic7xxx messages back in the-old-bad-
>days)
It may mean that your IDE disk is about to fail. Some drives start producing
these symptoms when they have to do retries to read a sector.
p.