Hi
Well, my maxtor is at least 2-3 years. and I have this problem a
while after I upgrade to 2.4.x kernel couple of months ago. first I
thought there might be problem with 2.4 kernel, but I am not sure. and it
happen (all 4 times) when I was using dpkg upgrading my system.
Edwin Lau
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:17:26 D-Man wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 08:11:00PM -0500, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:
> | I don't know if it is related to the problem. Sometimes when I try to
> | upgrade debian using dselect. I got the forwarding error
> |
> | hda: timout waiting DMA
> |
> | ide_dmaproc: chipset support ide_dma_timeout func only 14
> | hda: reset timed-out status 0x80
> | hda: status timeout: status = 0x80 {Busy}
> | endrequest: I/O error dev 03:03
> |
> | the message just repeat forever. and the system is sort of freeze until
> I
> | try to turn it off and back on again.
> | Ctl+Alt+del don't work
> | reset botton does work but the computer doesn't recognize the harddisk
> | after the reboot (only off and on work)
> |
> | anyone knows what's happening? I am using Maxtor harddisk
>
> heh, I get nearly the same thing messages occasionally with my Maxtor
> disk. It is probably either the disk or my weak power supply. The
> last time I saw the message (2 nights ago) I decided to go ahead and
> remove the zip drive and windows hd from my system (less load on power
> supply). Hopefully that will solve the problem.
>
> How old is your disk? Mine is ~ 1.5 years. Someone else on the list
> said that maxtor drives are bad and die early. My dad has a maxtor
> drive in his old 486 (Win95) and it has been there for over 2 years
> without trouble.
>
> -D
>
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