Re: 2.2 IDE spin-up problems

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Sat Jul 15 2000 - 20:20:56 EST


I am not sure but there may be a need to issue a reset to clear the
standby. I have done this also and I find after dorking with the drive in
a way to invoke a reset, then I can bring it back to life after the
standby command.

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Keith Duthie wrote:

> On 2.2.17pre9 and 2.2.16, my IBM-DJNA-371800 drive has irq timeouts when
> leaving standby mode (Andre: I was incorrect with my earlier bug report -
> it happens in all xfer-modes). When attempting to leave sleep mode I get
> lost interrupts, and the drive fails to spin up. Note that I only have
> problems when the drive is spinning up.
>
> The drive is the only drive on the ide channel, and the hardware checks
> out ok using the program available at the ibm website
> (http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/dft-v152.img).
>
> The motherboard is a bx6r2, with the latest bios upgrade, and I
> compiled the kernel with binutils 2.10.0.9 and gcc 2.95.2 .
>
>
> hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> hda: DMA disabled
> ide0: reset: success
>
>
> hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> ide0: reset: success
>
> --
> Understanding is a three edged sword. Do you *want* to get the point?
> http://www.albatross.co.nz/~psycho/ O- -><-
>

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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