On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 01:37:21AM -0500, w trillich wrote:
>
> i have something similar which i haven't been able to disable
> (not via bios, not via hdparm--at least i've not stumbled into
> the right parameter yet)--
>
> kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> kernel: ide1: reset: success
>
> after a time if i access my secondary drive, i get messages like
> this (usually more). after about 15 seconds, the drive is up and
> ready, all seems well. but those 15 seconds can kill a website...
>
> suggestions on how to disable this spindown?i have this problem on my IBM Deskstar 7200RPM drives (one in a Apple G3 the other in an intel box) the closest i have come is: /sbin/hdparm -S 0 /dev/hda which seems to make it happen less (maybe, its supposed to make it happen not at all) but I have noticed that while the drive still sleeps once in awhile i no longer get the DMA errors under 2.2.15 like i did with 2.2.14. wtih 2.2.14 i could intentionally put it to sleep and it get that error when it wakes, no more on 2.2.15. i also run /sbin/hdparm -k 1 /dev/hda at boot as well so that i don't lose DMA after one of those errors, which makes the disk performance slow as snot. read man hdparm for more info. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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