I am coming to conclusion that CentOS 4.7 does not support the Intel ICH9R SATA controller very well. My disk I/O is really slowing down as well. Any solutions besides replacing motherboard to fix it? Thanks. Matt > I upgraded my Centos 4.7 server last night. Switched from a cheaper > 50$ asus motherboard to a Supermicro motherboard. I also, using dd, > copied entire 500g SATA seagate drive to new 500g SATA seagate drive > so as to have two copies in case something went wrong. > > Anyway, now I keep getting this error: > > Nov 21 06:08:33 server kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > Nov 21 06:08:33 server kernel: > Nov 21 06:08:33 server kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown > Nov 21 06:08:33 server kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE > Nov 21 06:08:34 server kernel: ide0: reset: success > > Found one website that told me too try hdparm -i to see whats up: > > /dev/hda: > > Model=ST3500320AS, FwRev=SD15, SerialNo= > Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% } > RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 > BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off > CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455 > IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} > PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 > DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 > UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 > AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled > Drive conforms to: unknown: > > * signifies the current active mode > > So from recommendation on website I did this to match MaxMultiSect: > > hdparm -m16 /dev/hda > > then tried this to turn MultSect off: > > hdparm -m0 /dev/hda > > Still getting error. The Supermicro MBD-X7SBL-LN1-O motherboard has > basically all defaults set in bios. > > Any ideas? Thanks. > > Matt > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos