Is it a Quantum drive? More often than not, I've experienced this problem
with their drives. I'd reccomend not using Quantum drives with Linux, if
possible.
In any case, it means exactly what it says. It is having problems
handling the IRQ with your drive. It is not likely caused by damage in
transit or anything that high level. It is likely due to some miniscule
problem with the drives fabrication. Chances are good that it will
eventually fail completely producing a "clicking" sound only. Who knows
when. If it is an important box, change the drive ASAP.
It's a hardware problem.
- Kyle
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Ron Nath wrote:
> I have encountered the following problem with a hard drive that I just
> installed and formatted. I ran fsck and it said that everything was
> fine. Yet when I tried to copy some information onto this drive I got
> the following errors:
>
> hdb: write_intr: status= 0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
> hdb: write_intr: error=0x04 {DriveStatus Error}
>
> and this repeats itself a number of times until I get this error:
>
> hdb: irq time out: status=0xd0 {Busy}
> ide0: reset : success
>
> Im sure this does not bode well for this hard drive. Im pretty much
> resigned to the fact that Im going to have to return it and have them
> send out another one. But, in the off chance that there is something I
> can do that might repair this drive I am interested in hearing any
> thoughts on the mattter. Also, Im curious, what does all this mean? Is
> it due to damage during transport or something else?
>
> Fortunatly I was able to umount the mount points assigned to the
> partitions on this drive so Im ok for now.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> --
> Ron Nath
> Center for Medical Informatics
> Yale University
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