I used to think that it was my chipset(VIA MVP3 on an FIC PA-2013). But seeing
someone with a BX chipset have these problems has caused my renewed interest.
garner
Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:32:30AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Windows probably doesn't see these errors -- they only show under
> heavy load. Linux 2.2.x produces these error much more often that
> 2.0.x, presumably because it drives the hardware harder...
>
>
>
>
> -cw
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