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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!mimsy!afterlife!swaliff
- From: swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: HD-timeout problems
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.201920.3244@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 20:19:20 GMT
- Organization: The Great Beyond
- Lines: 31
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- I'm experiencing enough "HD-Timeout/HD-controller reset" messages to
- have become frustrated (irritated?) with it. This occurs both with
- the MCC release (.97p2) and the SLS release (.96c I believe). The
- SLS kernel has the "static int reset = 0" code in it. (I built a new
- kernel just for kicks. And The problem occurred BEFORE and after I
- built the kernel. ;-) ) The problem doesn't appear to happen when I
- crank the clock back from 33MHz to 10Mhz. Needless to say, that's
- not an acceptable solution.
-
- These messages occur mainly when I start emacs the first time, or
- start X windows. They also occur when I'm in X doing stuff (mundane
- stuff).
-
- 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
- Diamond Speedstar Plus (1Meg), and a Zoom VFP-32bis modem. The
- Quantum is dedicted to DOS, the Maxtor to Linux. At the moment I'm
- using SLS with a 32 MB root(/), a 64 MB /usr, a 43 MB swap
- partition, and another 64 MB partition for experimentation.
-
- I'm still in the experimental stages with Linux; trying to decide on
- a configuration, base level of software, disk partitioning, etc. So
- it's no big deal for me to scrap my current setup to try some
- experiments if anyone has any ideas. I'm thinking about setting up
- the MCC dist again and adding extended fs to see how that goes. (With
- an eye towards getting X11 up on that base.)
-
- Thanks.
- --
- Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])
-