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- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!capitol!moore
- From: moore@capitol.com (Jim Moore)
- Subject: HArd drive timeout
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.123856.1635@capitol.com>
- Organization: Capitol Disc Interactive
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:38:56 GMT
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- I just recently bought a Talon 120Mb IDE drive for my
- Gateway 2000 33Mhz 386 specifically to use Linux.
-
- I have the disc partitioned into :
- /
- swap
- /usr
- /home
-
- And I have even compiled and booted a new kernel (0.96c).
-
- However, whenever I do a big compile/link I start getting
- "HD-timeout" "HD reset" "HD ready" mesasges and have to power cycle.
-
- The Talon is the second IDE drive in the system. The first is a 200Mb
- Maxtor one huge DOS partition.
-
- I browsed around the kernel hd.c code a little, but I really don't
- know much about the PC disc hardware.
-
- Any ideas/fixes would be most welcome.
-
- Jim Moore
- moore@capitol.com
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