Re: Strange DMA timeouts

[bert hubert]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 06:35:31PM +0200, Lasse Bang Mikkelsen wrote:

> I keep getting these DMA timeouts under heavy harddrive load, ex. when
> unpacking big tarballs, transfering from USB harddrive etc.
> 
> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
> hda: DMA timeout error
> hda: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> 
> hda: DMA disabled
> ide0: reset: success
> 
> Is this a sign of harddisk failure or could this be a kernel problem?

If you send your complete dmesg, perhaps people will be able to tell.
Include the boot messages. 


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