Apparently W95 does something to the harddrive/controller that mangles
it's settings.
Vladimir Dergachev
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Neil Conway wrote:
> I've got a new PC, on which I've just installed RH5.1, so the kernel is
> still their 2.0.34-6 (Pre-6 maybe?).
>
> Anyway, I have had a number of problems already with the Samsung
> VA34323A hard disk, and one or two on the CDROM too (just changed from a
> Momitsu 24Max to a Samsung SCR3231E).
>
> On the hard disk I've been getting a number of these (typing from memory
> now cos the machine's not in front of me):
>
> kernel: hda: status error, status =0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete
> DataRequest}
> hda: disabling DMA
> ide0: reset success
>
> (Also got a failure last night on the SCR3231E but can't remember the
> exact text of that, except that it was quite different, but oh well,
> shdve written it down before leaving this morning :-)
>
> Mboard is a "PC-Chips M715", LX chipset, PII-266, 64MB 10ns SDRAM. I
> didn't measure the IDE cable but it didn't LOOK awfully long.
>
> Usually within about 30mins of boot-time I can trigger one of the
> hard-disk errors, last night the first occurrence was due to a
> "makewhatis -w", or at least *during* that command. On the other hand,
> the first I ever saw was during RH5.1 installation (argh) and cos I was
> worried, I did several kernel rebuilds without any sign of error.
>
> This has me puzzled. I know it's not the uptodate kernel, but I didn't
> see probs with this kernel on other PC's before they got upgraded.
> Should I be worried about these messages ?
>
> The BIOS is SMART aware and says the disk is OK, for what that's
> worth...
>
> I'd hate to have to leave DMA disabled on that drive if that's what is
> causing the trouble, cos it manages 10MB/s in DMA, and only 3MB/s in PIO
> :(((
>
> cheers
> Neil
>
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