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- From: bboerner@novdpd.uucp (Brendan B. Boerner)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: HD-timeout problems
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.144525.29951@novell.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 14:45:25 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.201920.3244@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <2255@fnnews.fnal.gov>
- Sender: bboerner@novell.com (Brendan B. Boerner)
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- In article <2255@fnnews.fnal.gov> rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer) writes:
- >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.
-
- Are these IDE drives? A couple of years ago, I had setup a Swan 386SX
- w/an IDE drive for a client and under DOS would intermittently get
- Error reading from drive c: messages. I talked to Swan t.s. and they
- suggested disabling the disk cache (I believe it was SMARTDRV I was
- using). Sure 'nuff, the problem went away.
-
- Not sure what this means, but I though I'd pass it along. BTW, I've
- seen a HD-reset _once_ on a 486/33 w/8MB (under Pl 4 I believe).
- Haven't seen it on my system (396/16 w/5MB).
-
- Brendan
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