Re: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA

2001-03-26 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:09:13PM +1200, Lex McPhail wrote: | What does the following message mean: | | hdc: timeout waiting for DMA | hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } | The drive is probably going bad, or you might just have a bad machine. About a month and

Re: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA -- extended

2001-03-25 Thread Marc-Adrian Napoli
hi all, > On Mon 26 Mar 01, 2:09 PM, Lex McPhail said: > > What does the following message mean: > > > > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA > > hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > > i think it means linux wanted to do an operation, sent the request, waited > for the

Re: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA

2001-03-25 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Lex McPhail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA > hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > > hdc is a QUANTIUM FIREBALL ST2.1A It could be one of two things. It could be caused by a buggy IDE controller (PIIX3 is one such example) that a

Re: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA

2001-03-25 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 26 Mar 01, 2:09 PM, Lex McPhail said: > What does the following message mean: > > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA > hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } i think it means linux wanted to do an operation, sent the request, waited for the IRQ to say "i'm done"

Re: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA

2001-03-25 Thread ktb
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:09:13PM +1200, Lex McPhail wrote: > What does the following message mean: > > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA > hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > > It is coming up on my Debian 2.2.18pre21 potato installation quite regularly > since I