Re: hda: unexpected_intr: status=0xd0 { Busy }

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@fys.ruu.nl)
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 20:17:53 +0100 (MET)

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Brian Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > My question is, is this a sure sign of a hardware problem or could this
> > be a bug in the ide drivers? And if it's a hardware problem, is it more
> > likely to be the disk controller (which is on-board) or the disk?
>
> In my experience, it's a sign of impending drive failure. I advise
> replacing that hard drive as soon as possible. I have never seen these
> messages caused by a bad controller.

I have... It could be a sign of:
- a too high PIO setting (in my case)
- the drive hasn't spun up fast enough
- an invalid compiler optimisation
- ... something else I forgot ...

Rik.
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