On Mon 26 Mar 01, 2:09 PM, Lex McPhail said: > What does the following message mean: > > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA > hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } i think it means linux wanted to do an operation, sent the request, waited for the IRQ to say "i'm done" but never got the interrupt.
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