HDD problem - hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }

[John Abreau]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I assume that is a 2.6 kernel and the chips are Intel Xeon. In any case, 
> your drives are relatively low end SATA drives. I'm wondering if the drive 
> is possibly the problem or even the cabling. 
> 

Yup, it's got two Xeon CPUs, and the kernel is 2.6.9-34.ELsmp.

I replaced the SATA data cable, and it's still giving the same error,
at roughly 30-second intervals.


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