i actually saw this same error message with my zip drive a couple years
ago. turned out i had the "click of death." had to replace it. could be a
fubar hard drive.
-r
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Kyle Amon wrote:
> 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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