Hrm... what kind of motherboard/ide chipset do you have? Also, what process/es seem to consume all your CPU power (you can find out by running top). Knowing this would be helpful :)
Brandt Dusthimer On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 04:06, shyamk wrote: > Since today morning my Debian Potato r3 box has > been behaving strangely : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/mnt7/Penguin_logo$ sudo /sbin/ask > Password:hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE > ide0: reset: success > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ > > In addition to this , I notice that the processor > seems to be aggressively working even when nothing > is being done -or- even when all users have logged > out ! Strange , Windoze does not seem to be causing > this kind of problems. > > What can the possible reason be ? Is this indicative of > some major/minor anomaly ? > > Regards, > Shyam > > > -- > ----------------------------(*)-X-(*)---------------------------- > > Knowledge is Power > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > __________________ > | __ | > | |_|_ | > | __| | | > |__________________| > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- :%s/emacs/vi/g -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]