hda: irq timeout's??

[Michael W. Bogucki]

Hello All,
	I know that this question has been asked in the past (according to
the archives), but I have not been able to find a solution to this problem
(in the archives.)
	First of all here's the system specs as well as OS.

Supermicro P6DNE (yeah I know..it's old...)
Bios Rev 1.8d (the latest one.)
64 Megs of Ram
8 gig Seagate U4 Model ST 38421A drive. 
Dual 166 Mhz (512k cache) procs

OS: Redhat ver 7.0 with kernel 2.2.16.
I've also tried 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 (with the stock kernels.)

Just recently I've been getting this error popping up on the console:

hda: irp timeout: Status=0xd0 {Busy}

**AS WELL AS**

hda: irp timeout: Status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}

Now I will mention that I have replaced the harddrive in this system 4
times. Each time was because the drive started acting up (and these
messages were appearing.) 

The latest drive, which is less that 3 months old, will make all sorts of
clicking sounds...just like all the previous drives, and the system load
would go up beyond 2.0, just for a simple 'ls' command.

Has anyone been able to come up with a solution to this problem??

I have already tried using a POST probe as well as Microscope 2000.
They both state that nothing is wrong with the system.

Please email/CC back at [e-mail].

Thank you for your time and help!!

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