Re: ide problem - is this a known problem, or is the disk dead?

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2003-06-01 at 23:28, Robert Murray wrote:
> Jun  1 06:28:00 r2d2 kernel: hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
> Jun  1 06:28:10 r2d2 kernel: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
> Jun  1 06:28:10 r2d2 kernel: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
> Jun  1 06:28:10 r2d2 kernel: hdc: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting
> Jun  1 06:28:10 r2d2 kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> Jun  1 06:28:10 r2d2 kernel:
> Jun  1 06:28:10 r2d2 kernel: hdc: drive not ready for command
> Jun  1 06:28:40 r2d2 kernel: ide1: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
> Jun  1 06:28:40 r2d2 kernel: hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> Jun  1 06:29:11 r2d2 kernel:

Its hard to tell if thats a dead disk or just terminally confused. The
drive stopped taking to us, set itself Busy and never came back even
after we tried to reset it.