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- From: rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: HD-timeout problems
- Summary: Maxtor 7213As hanging
- Message-ID: <2255@fnnews.fnal.gov>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 21:17:37 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.201920.3244@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
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- In article <1992Sep5.201920.3244@afterlife.ncsc.mil> swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff) writes:
- >I'm experiencing enough "HD-Timeout/HD-controller reset" messages to
- [deleted]
- >My hardware is a 386@33, no 387; a Technology Power Sonic-386
- >motherboard (with 8 Meg RAM), a Kouwei KW-556A controller (multi-I/O
- >card), a Quantum LPS-105 (master) and a Maxtor 7213 (slave), a
- ^^^^^^^^^^^
- I've been having the same sort of problems, where sometimes the
- hard drive will sit and spin with the drive activity light on,
- then get a controller reset and work fine, under Linux.
-
- I've seen the proposed kernel hack, and with a delay of 1000 the
- timeouts happen only once in a blue moon, but the disk seems to be
- significantly slower.
-
- Here's the real bad thing: A friend of mine has a 7213A also, and
- he's even getting drive hangs IN DOS! This is a 386-25, with
- a seagate 85-megger as master. Mine is a 386-40, Forex chipset,
- no way to change the bus speed, but the manual says it is 8 MHz
- with a 386-40 in place. He's also tried two similar but different
- controllers, with no luck.
-
- Anybody know anything about maxtor 7213A's hanging, especially
- in DOS?
-
- [deleted]
- >Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])
-
- TIA,
- Keith
- (mail to rohrer@math.grin.edu)
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