[ale] ide reset

[Scott Nolde]

Peter,

This hard drive is either an IBM hard drive or a Western Digital (I
don't know for sure, but their of reputable manufacture).

The strange thing is it's happening with such frequency.  When it
happens at every :41:55, that's on the hour (when occurring) since the
machine was booted.

- Scott

Peter Ekstrom wrote:
> 
> I'd be interested to hear about this as well.
> 
> I've had the same problem with 3 different drives in two different
> machines.  All three of my drives were Maxtor drives of varying
> sizes (2.5GB, 8GB and 10GB).  In two cases I had Linux running on
> them and in the third case (the 10GB drive) I had Windows 98SE.
> 
> I ended up with a corrupt ext2 filesystem on the 8GB drive and a
> bunch of blue-screens on the 10GB drive in Win98SE when the drive
> took too long to reset.
> 
> In all cases I noticed that the drive made a click noise at which
> point the drive light was on steady.  Several seconds later the
> drive made another click noise just like the first one and the
> light went out.  The interval between the two clicks would vary
> between 5-12 seconds if I remember correctly.
> 
> My solution so far has been to replace the drives with Western
> Digital drives...  Haven't had that problem since...
> 
> //Peter
> 
> Scott Nolde <smnoldelinux at mediaone.net> wrote:
> > I'm getting quite a few of these messages:
> > Mar 16 13:25:54 gw kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > Mar 16 13:25:57 gw kernel: ide0: reset: success
> > Mar 16 13:41:54 gw kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > Mar 16 13:41:55 gw kernel: ide0: reset: success
> > Mar 16 14:00:29 gw kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > Mar 16 14:00:30 gw kernel: ide0: reset: success
> > Mar 16 14:35:04 gw kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > Mar 16 14:35:05 gw kernel: ide0: reset: success
> > Mar 16 15:09:39 gw kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > Mar 16 15:09:39 gw kernel: ide0: reset: success
> > Mar 16 15:41:54 gw kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > Mar 16 15:41:54 gw kernel: ide0: reset: success
> > Mar 16 16:18:49 gw kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > Mar 16 16:18:49 gw kernel: ide0: reset: success
> > Mar 16 16:41:53 gw kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > Mar 16 16:41:54 gw kernel: ide0: reset: success
> > Mar 16 17:28:03 gw kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > Mar 16 17:28:04 gw kernel: ide0: reset: success
> > Mar 16 18:02:38 gw kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> > Mar 16 18:02:39 gw kernel: ide0: reset: success
> >
> > It seems my hard drive is sleeping.  I don't have the hdparm set for
> > this, but every time it 'wakes up' I get this error.  My hdparm
> > settings
> > when I boot are:
> > hdparm -d1 -u1 -m8 -c3 -A1 /dev/hda
> >
> > Is there any way i can avoid this from happening?
> >
> > My suspicion is I compiled something in the kernel... but I don't know
> > where it is... unless something's just plain wrong.  I don't suspect a
> > bad hard drive.  This one's less than a year old.
> >
> > Can anyone glean information about this 'problem' from the following
> > stuff?
> > [root at gw linux-2.4.1]# hdparm /dev/hda
> >
> > /dev/hda:
> >  multcount    =  0 (off)
> >  I/O support  =  0 (default 16-bit)
> >  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
> >  using_dma    =  0 (off)
> >  keepsettings =  0 (off)
> >  nowerr       =  0 (off)
> >  readonly     =  0 (off)
> >  readahead    =  8 (on)
> >  geometry     = 2193/255/63, sectors = 35239680, start = 0
> > [root at gw linux-2.4.1]# hdparm -I /dev/hda
> >
> > /dev/hda:
> >
> >  Model=DW CCA140800 D                          , FwRev=7JO83AK0,
> > SerialNo=DWW-6T96005960 1
> >  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> >  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=34
> >  BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1966kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=8
> >  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=35239680
> >  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> >  PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> >  DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4
> >
> >
> > - Scott
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