I also have slightly irritating (but apparently harmless) kernel
messages that pop up repeatedly each day:
Mar 14 23:01:29 cardano kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Mar 14 23:01:29 cardano kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
Mar 14 23:01:29 cardano kernel: ide0: reset: success
The hard-disk in question is a Seagate:
hda: ST313021A, ATA DISK drive
hda: ST313021A, 12419MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1583/255/63
and here's what hdparm has to say for itself:
/dev/hda1:
multcount = 0 (off)
I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 0 (off)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 1583/255/63, sectors = 321237, start = 63
Now I could be dreaming this, but I'm sure that in a previous
life when the drive was only had two partitions (rather than
its current 6) I didn't get these messages.
Does anyone have any idea as to how to stop the messages (or
even whether I should be worried).
Sean.
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