From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266694AbUF3PTB (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:19:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266696AbUF3PTB (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:19:01 -0400 Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:16313 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266694AbUF3PS5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:18:57 -0400 From: "Nick Warne" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:18:55 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.4.26: IDE drives become unavailable randomly Message-ID: <40E2E7EF.15243.10093E4E@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21b) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I was getting this problem, and advice from smartmontools people was to clean out the box and reseat all cables etc. Seemed to work for me on the box at work with this DMA timeout issue - BTW, always happened at idle, like 2:15am in the middle of the night etc. Reference: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8660397 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4908273&forum_i d=12495 Nick -- "When you're chewing on life's gristle, Don't grumble, Give a whistle..."