Re: WESTERN DIGITAL 200GB IDE DRIVES GO OFFLINE - HOW TO FIX

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2003-06-11 at 16:36, war wrote:
> I've searched the archives, google and so on, many questions relating to
> why the Western Digital drives go offline exist but with no answers.
> 
> PROBLEM: After extended periods of time, the HDD will simply go offline.
> 
> EXAMPLE LOG ENTRY:
> 
> Jun  2 02:07:26 l2 kernel: hdg: dma_intr: status=0x61 { DriveReady
> DeviceFault Error }
> Jun  2 02:07:26 l2 kernel: hdg: dma_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> Jun  2 02:07:26 l2 kernel: hdg: DMA disabled

"DeviceFault" and "Error"

Those are return values I associate with device (ie hardware) faults
oddly enough 8)