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- From: ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Hard drive problem
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 22:55:44 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: ah200@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy Beiter)
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- Awhile back, I was having an extremely recurring error, which the solution
- was suggested that I should use -c when mkfs'ing the hard drive. I
- re-mkfs'd the hard drive to no avail, it still gives me the error, although
- less often since now I keep only little-used files on it - however, the hd
- I had been using was only 20 meg, and I've outgrown it, this one is a 40,
- and I'd like to use all of it. I'm about to edit the kernel to have it
- ignore this particular status/error level, but am nervous about such a
- kludge since this could be a real problem, although I've never had any
- problems with the hd except this annoying message:
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- HD: write_intr: status = 0xff
- HD: write_intr: error = 0xff
- cotroller_ready: status = ff
- HD_controller reset
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- I've already had problmes with wait states, so I son't think I need to slow
- the bus down anymore, since I slowed it down to get the 20meg drive to
- work. Any help anyone can offer would be greatly apprechiated, thanks much!
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