On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:27:43PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Been having some problems with two of the HDs in one of my machines. > Both are Quantum TMs (a 2.3 and a 3.2, i believe), both on the first IDE > chanel. > > The drives will pause and make a funny noise (which is never a good > sign, AFAIK). Then I'll get an error message, like the ones below. > > irq timeout: status=0x80 {Busy} > > hdb: read_intr: status=0xff {Busy} > > ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0 > [snip] > > Thanks, > > damon > > -- > Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | As my head fell in the basket, > Network Administrator | And was everyone dancing on the casket... > EmpireNET | - TBMG, "Dead" >
Damon, I've also been having problems with a Quantum... this one is detected as Quantum BIGFOOT_CY4320A. It was first installed as a Win95 drive. Wasn't long before Windows started detecting errors at the beginning of the drive, and it finally became unusable. I'm using it for linux now. When I partitioned it, I created a junk partition of 100M at the beginning (where the errors were occuring), then created a 500M root partition after that. Then I deleted the first partition and created the remaining ones after the root. This left 100M unused. I still get error messages, occasionally, but it doesn't seem to be getting any worse. FYI, the messages I get are: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hdb: DMA disabled ide0: reset: success This is the second of these drives I've owned, and the second that's given me problems like this. I've just about decided to stay clear of Quantums. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680