I had a similar problem with a bad IDE controller once. If you've upgraded
your kernel recently you might need to look at the kernel docs. related IDE
chipsets and see if yours has any known issues. You might also want to
check for loose cables, poor cable routing, bad power supply etc. I doubt
that 2 drives would go bad at the same time but much of the control
electronics for IDE are located on the drive so maybe one bad drive could
cause trouble for another on the same cable.
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 10:27:43PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Been having some problems with two of the HDs in one of my machines.
> Both are Quantum TMs (a 2.3 and a 3.2, i believe), both on the first IDE
> chanel.
>
> The drives will pause and make a funny noise (which is never a good
> sign, AFAIK). Then I'll get an error message, like the ones below.
>
> irq timeout: status=0x80 {Busy}
>
> hdb: read_intr: status=0xff {Busy}
>
> ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
>
> That's not all of them, but as many of them as I managed to copy down.
>
> For a while they would pause, give the error, and then start up again,
> but lately my computer has completely frozen up a few times, and now it
> refuses to boot at all.
>
> It seems like both of the drives have the problem, although one was
> getting a little more scrambled than the other. Seems sort of strange
> that they would both die at the same time (they were bought at different
> times from different places)!
>
> The other IDE channel has a CD-ROM and another HD on it (a 1.2G
> Seagate), and doesn't seem to have any problems that I have seen.
>
> Anyone have any idea what is causing these probelms? Have both my HDs
> died at once (that sort of hits the hip pocket in a big way!), or is it
> something else that might be contributing to it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> damon
>
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