Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Vince Weaver wrote:
>
> >(A.S. I tried to write to hedrick@astro.dyer.vanderbilt.edu, but the mail
> > bumped back to me :-( )
Oh, he and I are one in the same.
> > Hope this is not a mere hardware problem: it shouldn't, because I
> >fschecked the disk successfully some day ago.
> > The disk is a JTS PALLADIUM of 850 MB, and I have it since 1996. It
> >is
> >master of the second IDE channel, together with a cdrom drive set to
> >slave
> >(the hd jumper is correctly set "master with slave", too). My kernel is
> >2.2.11, but I tried even 2.0.36 with the same results. Sometimes,
> >especially
> >during long disk operations, the following lines do appear:
> >
> >hdc: status error: status = 0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> >hdc: drive not ready for command
>
> I have the same exact hard-drive, and the exact same problem.
>
> Go into your bios and change the PIO mode for that hard-drive down to PIO
> mode 2. It can't take it any faster, even though it says it can do PIO4.
>
> I had one in a 486 with no problems. When I upgraded to a K6/via
> motherboard, the on-board IDE tried to run the drive to fast. Took me
> forever to figure out what it was. This also can cause filesystem
> corruption so be careful.
>
> I don't know if it is possible to blacklist this drive or what. Setting
> PIO mode using hdparm doesn't work, you have to do it in the BIOS.
>
> Vince
>
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