Re: DMA disabled and busy errors

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:32:30 -0400

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
...
> It works 99% of the time, just every now and then, perhaps once a day under
> light load, more often under heavier load, I get these:
>
> hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> ide0: reset: success

I wouldn't worry about it then. Likely just a firmware (drive) bug.
Harmless.

I've seen/had lots of drives with that behaviour.
MS-Win probably just retries the operation silently;
with linux, we let you know about spurious problems.

-- 
mlord@pobox.com


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