I have been using two EIDE drives with Linux for quite a while and have noticed a persistant
problem. Under heavy load the drive assigned to /dev/hda sometimes hangs, that is the hard
drive light stays on and the system enventually crashs.
Looking at /var/log/messages reveals persistant hard drive errors of the form:
Mar 6 09:11:53 hudsonpc kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Mar 6 09:11:53 hudsonpc kernel: ide0: reset: success
This is always with /dev/hda never /dev/hdb/
Playing around with the setting using hdparm does not seem to make any difference.
I have found that this effect has persisted even through a change in motherboard
(from Micronics with CMD640 to Intel Zapaa with dual intel PIIX). I have also tried
using two harddrives on one controller, and one controller per hard drive. (there are
two intel PIIX's on a Zappz motherboard).
Can anyone please help me. These crashes are severely reducing my productivity when using Linux !!
Thanks
Liam hudson
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Liam Hudson | Imperial College Of Science & Tech | Flat 1, 194 Cromwell Rd.| | l.hudson02@ic.ac.uk | South Kensington, London | Earls Court, London | | 0171 594 7685 | SW5 2BZ | SW7 0SN | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------