keep an eye on it but this looks bad. Check something like advanced power manager in the bios is not active that could be shutting down the hd, but biggest likelyhood IMHO is the drive looks to be failing.
regards S -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 July 2004 3:39 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:14:51PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > David wrote: > >I know this is not Debian specific, but I'm curious.. > >Yesterday, my HD shut down briefly rather unexplainably to me. > >I have the following entry in my kern.log (as well as corresponding > >entries in other logs): > >------------------ cut ----------------- > >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { > >Busy } > >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: > >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: DMA disabled > >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command > >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80 > >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0x80 { > >Busy } > >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: > >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command > >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: ide0: reset: success > > > >----------------- cut ------------------ > Install, configure and use smartmontools. > If it doesn't recognise your drive, follow the reporting procedure. In a > day or two there wil be a new package for you to try. Thanks for the reply. What does this package do? Would it give a more detailed report on what is going on? This is what I gather from "apt-cache show". Actually, I am not sure if I would have SMART support on this computer or not. I don't recall any mention of SMART in regard to my HD (repeating, WD-400BB), and if the computer is supposed to provide anything of it, mine probably won't - it's a very old P-166 about 10 yrs old or more. This is something that has never happened before (AFAIK), and the logs for the boot don't show any problems in detection of hda. > He service really is very good. If you think it might help I will give it a try. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]