Hi, But linux wont load... so where do i try these commands?? Regards, Kunal Jhunjhunwala
"Minds think with ideas, not information. No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought." - Clifford Stoll ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip S Tellis" philip.tellis@iname.com To: "linux list bombay" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] ide drive errors on bootup
Sometime Today, Kunal Jhunjhunwala assembled some asciibets to say:
Whenever I boot up my linux machine, it gets stuck on the following :
hda : irq timeout : status 0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
may be a DMA problem. You could fool around with hdparm - at your own risk of course.
try some of the following:
DMA off: hdpard -d0
disable 32bit IO (temporarily to see if it makes a difference) hdparm -c0
disable read ahead: hdparm -A
of course, these commands are not complete, because if they were, you'd be tempted to use them without reading the hdparm man page first :)
so, go read it, understand it, and then try it.
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