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Subject: I am Stumped---Any reason for this problem?
From: Fritz Zuhl <fritzuhl@creative.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:55:30 -0800
I have installed RedHat 6.0 on six generic Pentium II pcs--all with the
same hardware. Everthing on them runs as expected, except I get this
error message appearing on their consoles in seemingly random intervals:
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
ide0: reset: success
I know the presence of "hda" and "ide0" indicate the hard drive and the
ide controller. But both of those pieces have been replaced, and the
machines still give this error message.
Any ideas as to what is causing this?
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Subject: Re: I am Stumped---Any reason for this problem?
From: Mark Cohen <markc@creativephoto.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:40:18 -0800 (PST)
Try going into the BIOS and doing the HD find (it then writes its findings
to the memory in the bios.. Also disable any controllers that aren't being
used.
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