On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 2:16 pm, Keith Powell wrote: > My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own > caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose. > > A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working a couple > of days ago whilst I was using it,. So I rebooted. It started to boot, > then stopped with the error message: > > Partition Check: > hda: <4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status ==0x21 > hda: timeout waiting for DMA > hda: timeout waiting for DMA > hda: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting > > the hard drive activity light was permanently on. >
Stephen said that caddies sometimes go flakey, so: I put the "faulty" hard drive into a different caddy and a good hard drive into the caddy the "faulty" drive had been using. Everything now works, so it appeared to have been a caddy/drive connection problem. I will investigate this further. Also, I will put the drives back into their original caddies and see what happens. Thanks to all who have made suggestions. They are all noted for possible future use. Cheers Keith
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