The following is liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer powersave BIOSs
--- Begin Message ---Thanks Marvin,I went into the Power Management settings and disabled them all and sure enough problems have disappeared. Now if I could just get it to make coffee in the morning... Thanks again! Ben > > Good Morning, > > > > Has anyone ever encountered an error like this? > > > > hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > > ide0: reset: success > > > On a Compaq 486 laptop, that type of message appeared under Linux > until I went into the Setup (at power on) and disabled the Option like: > "the drive go to sleep after n minutes without use" > Perhaps there is an energy spacer option enabled in your setup BIOS? > There are kernel build options affecting this, but I have no experience > with them yet. Let us know when you work this out. > > MarvS
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