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

[ward at pong.be (Ward Vandewege)]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:50:49PM -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> I'm setting up an HP ProLiant DL140 G2 server, and I'm seeing some
> serious performance degradation. The logs are filling up with the
> following error:
> 
> Jun 23 14:40:20 shapieron kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> Jun 23 14:40:20 shapieron kernel:
> Jun 23 14:40:20 shapieron kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> Jun 23 14:40:20 shapieron kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
> Jun 23 14:40:23 shapieron kernel: ide0: reset: success
> 
> The error appears at roughly 30-second intervals.
> 
> I found a suggestion through google to try fiddling with hdparm,
> particularly with the -m option. hdparm -I showed
> R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16, so I tried
> "hdparm -m16 /dev/hda", but this didn't fix the problem.
> 
> I'm looking at the hdparm man page now, but I can't figure out
> what to try next. Any ideas?

Have you tried a different cable? This kind of error can be caused by bad
cables.

Ward.

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