Re: ide drive busy - is this "dangerous"?

mlord (mlord@pobox.com)
Mon, 29 Dec 1997 14:03:02 -0500

Tuomas Heino wrote:
>
> 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?

If you see a lot of them, then something is wrong somewhere.
Double-check the connectors and ensure the cable lengths
are 18" or less.

Some drives seem to generate these errors once in a while,
and as you can see, Linux notices and corrects for the problem.

-- 
mlord@pobox.com
The Linux IDE guy