Only thing that comes to mind is "man hdparm". Not that this is an actual
answer but it's a nice utility for IDE disks :)
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
> Okay, this is now officially driving me insane. After realizing I
> couldn't get ipchains to work (easily) under v2.4.3, I dropped to
> v2.2.19, however now I'm faced with a different problem. One that I did
> not have with either 2.0 kernels, nor with 2.4...
>
> Apr 11 17:05:28 rusty kernel: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
> Apr 11 17:05:28 rusty kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58
> { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
>
> It does that 4 times, before popping up with:
>
> Apr 11 17:05:29 rusty kernel: hdb: DMA disabled
>
> The drive itself is an old 516Mb Quantum drive that I know for a
> fact works. When it's first detected, it comes up with:
>
> Apr 11 17:05:27 rusty kernel: hdb: QUANTUM MAVERICK 540A, 516MB w/98kB
> Cache, CHS=524/32/63, DMA
>
> I know the drive is fine (and the fact that it's been working fine
> with kernel v2.0 and v2.4 is another indication of that), so why is the
> thing complaining now?
>
> AMK4
>
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