Re: Linux 2.0.31-pre-4: bug detecting secondary IDE drive

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 13 Aug 1997 09:36:59 +0100 (BST)


> However, once it reaches hdc, the system halts for about 10 seconds and
> displays the following message:
>
> Aug 12 20:58:38 celestra kernel: hdc:hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> Aug 12 20:58:38 celestra kernel: hdc: disabled DMA
> Aug 12 20:58:38 celestra kernel: ide1: reset: success
> Aug 12 20:58:38 celestra kernel: [PTBL] [787/64/63] hdc1
>
> I am sure that the drive is working properly. I get this phenomenon
> consistently whenever I boot a kernel from version 2.0.29 onward. This
> bug hasn't been fixed in 2.0.31-pre-4.

Im not sure it is a bug, its saying

I tried using DMA to hdc and it didnt work, I've turned DMA off and
its now happy