linux-2.2.14pre11 and IDE HDD

Yasuhide OOMORI (dasen@typhoon.co.jp)
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 07:33:28 +0900

Upgrading from linux-2.2.14pre10 to linux-2.2.14pre11,
severe disk access stops any operation. If I wait about
ten minutes it restarts.

/var/log/messages has messages like:

kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }

Probing my log files this message was frequently left
since linux-2.2.14pre7 or around, but there was no
freeze.

Now I'm compiling linux-2.2.14pre11 with
ide.2.2.14-11.19991204.patch.bz2. I'm not sure it will
help me solve this problem...

My environment is as such:
GA-586S2(SiS5582)
Maxtor 84320D4(primary master, UDMA33)
Maxtor 92040U6(primary slave, UDMA66)
TEAC CD-532E-B(secondary master, 32x ATAPI CD-ROM)
Acer CRW6206A(secondary slave, 2x ATAPI CD-R)

And Now I mainly use primary slave HDD.

/etc/rc.d/rc.local has such line as

hdparm -c1 -m16 -X66 -k1 /dev/hdb

If I set

hdparm -c1 -m16 -X65 -k1 /dev/hdb

There is no problem as I know now.

Is this trouble caused by my misconfiguration?

-- 
Yasuhide OOMORI
mailto:dasen@typhoon.co.jp


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