On Thu, 08 May 2008 19:20:58 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > J.A. Magallón wrote: > > Hi all... > > > > I'm getting again my friendly DRDY errors, this time on the new disk I got > > to replace the old one (that fortunately was still under warranty...). > > This is a brand new disk, it came perfectly packaged... > > Now it is not a Seagate, but a WD: > > Note that DRDY is not an error: > > http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Libata_error_messages > > But moreover, for Serial ATA, timeouts are generally due to platform > problems, irq problems, or driver problems. When we see timeouts, we > generally do not look at the hard drive as the primary cause. > > Have you gone through the debugging process for irq problems -- turning > off ACPI, noapic, etc.? > Thanks, will look at that page and see if I can debug some more info. -- J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()ono!com> \ Software is like sex: \ It's better when it's free Mandriva Linux release 2008.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.23-jam05 (gcc 4.2.2 20071128 (4.2.2-2mdv2008.1)) SMP PREEMPT -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
