Oh oh

[Paul Tomblin]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:40:59 +0200, Chadley Wilson <chadley at pinteq.co.za> wrote:
> On Monday 15 November 2004 13:30, Paul Tomblin wrote:
> > I woke up this morning to find my computer extremely sluggish.  One
> > terminal window was still responding a bit, so I did an "uptime" only
> > to find the load average over 230!  I'll investigate and report back.
> Oh !!! OK

Ok, it appears that I'm getting more  errors on my second IDE
controller, even though the problematic /dev/hdc4 wasn't mounted. 
/dev/hdc1 was mounted, and it was ok earlier.  But around 2:00, I
suddenly started to get

Nov 15 02:05:26 allhats kernel: hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61
Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: hdc: DMA timeout error
Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: hdc: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: 
Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: hdc: DMA disabled
Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: hdd: DMA disabled
Nov 15 02:05:36 allhats kernel: ide1: reset: success
Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdc: lost interrupt
Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdc: multwrite_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady Se
ekComplete DataRequest Error }
Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdc: multwrite_intr: error=0x00 { }
Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdd: status error: status=0x00 { }
Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdd: status error: error=0x00
Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdd: status timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
Nov 15 02:05:51 allhats kernel: hdd: status timeout: error=0x80LastFailedSense 0

Now this hardware was all working perfectly for the last couple of
years, and suddenly started throwing these errors after "upgrading" to
Fedora Core 3 and the new 2.6 kernel.  I'm deeply suspicious.  I think
I'm going to download a RedHat 9 ISO and boot from that, and exercise
that drive to see if it gets errors under 9.

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