Hi All, Just checking before I buy a new ribbon, that there is nothing more sinister happening with my secondary IDE controller. Suddenly and with no activity on my secondary IDE controller there's a noise as if my /dev/hdc (8G ATA drive) and /dev/hdd (CDWR) are reinitialised - i.e. the mechanical noises usually observed when the machine is switched on and the BIOS probes the devices on booting.
Both devices are not mounted and there is no media in the CDWR. This is what dmesg shows: ================= hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 hdc: DMA timeout error hdc: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hdc: task_in_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: task_in_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } [...snip] hdd: DMA disabled ide1: reset: success hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 hdc: DMA timeout error hdc: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 hdc: DMA timeout error hdc: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 hdc: DMA timeout error hdc: dma timeout error: status=0x80 { Busy } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: DMA disabled ide1: reset: success hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdd: ATAPI reset complete hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdd: ATAPI reset complete hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ide: failed opcode was: 0xef ================= The noises and error codes are randomly generated over time. This is the hdparm outputs: ================= # hdparm /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: multcount = 32 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 16676/16/63, sectors = 8606545920, start = 0 # hdparm /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument ================= I thought that the CDRW DMA ought to be switched on? Any advice appreciated. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list