RH7.0 Logout on Error

Brian J. Conway bconway at WPI.EDU
Mon Jan 7 09:58:52 EST 2002


> Jan  7 02:22:58 kelly-rand kernel: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
> Jan  7 02:22:58 kelly-rand kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> Jan  7 02:22:58 kelly-rand kernel: hda: DMA disabled
> Jan  7 02:22:58 kelly-rand kernel: hdb: DMA disabled
> Jan  7 02:22:58 kelly-rand kernel: ide0: reset: success
> Jan  7 02:30:00 kelly-rand CROND[7002]: (root) CMD (   /sbin/rmmod -as)

This is indicative of a hardware issue.  Either your IDE controller
doesn't like your drive and isn't happy with the DMA settings or
vice-versa, or one of the two is looking to die (and if it's a Western
Digital drive, it's probably both situations!).  I'd give the drive a good
look and back up your data in a timely fashion, if I were you.  If the
drive is fine and the IDE controller is unhappy, perhaps upgrade to a
later kernel to see if the chipset support is better?  VIA chipsets in
particular come to mind.

-b






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