with kernel 2.0.34 (source straight from RH 5.1) with APM and PCMCIA
enabled, using a UMC8886BF IDE controller and
hda: IBM-DDLA-21620, 1551MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=3152/16/63
on an Olivetti Echos 133EM laptop, I get the following symptoms:
- hard disk accesses cease for a moment and a process (say, LaTeX) waits
for them;
- the kernel gets angry, reports
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
then resets the IDE bus and reports
ide0: reset: success
Does anybody have an idea on this stupid behaviour? This shouldn't be the
BIOS turning off the HD when idle: I was definitely not idle at the
moment. And, anyway, it shouldn't freeze the machine for several seconds.
-- David, puzzled
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