On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > I've got a fully pnp system, with a seagate 2.1 gig drive and a Creative > Labs CD420 cd drive on the first ide (ide0) channel. I've been letting > the bios auto-detect everything (what's a pnp bios for, anyway ... :) ), > and sometimes, at seemingly random times, I get the following error, > under kernelversions 2.0.27 and 2.0.30. > > hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 {DriveReady Seekcomplete DataRequest} > hda: drive not ready for command > ide0: reset: success > > ^ > this | scrolls on the screen, and just repeats ad infinitum. The machine > is essentially frozen; the only way I've found to fix it is to hit the > case-mounted reset button.
I suggest that your try adding the folowing to your /etc/lilo.conf file, then rerun lilo: append = "ide0=noautotune" For further details see the bootprompt HOWTO. > The error seems _not_ to happen under Windoze, and doesn't seem to be > triggered by anything I can lay a finger on (not launching a particular > application, for example). I remember hearing about a problem with LBA > mode, so I switched to a different mode, but then I can't boot... lilo > just prints > > LI > > and freezes (tho sometimes CTRL-ALT-DEL still works). > > Any clues? > > Will > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~lowe/ > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > :---------------- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -----------------: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow? : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ---------------------------------------- : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ---------------------------------------- : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer : :-------------- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ -------------: -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .