On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> Ok, I've run out of places to look. I'm getting occasional "hda:timeout" > messages and my system is locking up with a disk error after anywhere from > a few hours to a couple of days. When it locks up, I can still change > virtual consoles, but I can't run anything and ctrl-alt-del doesn't work. > Since I hope to leave this system running unattended in Austin, crashes are > a very bad thing. Help??? I'm having this same problem with a 486 with a fairly new motherboard. It seems to happen most often when there is a fair amount of disk activity which makes me think it might be triggered by queueing writes to both disks under certain circumstances. One of these days when I get the time I'm going to upgrade the flash BIOS on the motherboard to see if that helps. Can you get a new disk controller for your machine to see if that helps?
