i hate kernel ide errors

bstempi · 04-16-2003, 09:08 PM

Hello all!

I guess you can consider me a newbie. I run a linux filer server on my network at home. I had a hotswap IDE drive, and decided to be brave and to try it out. I unmounted the drive and removed it with no problem. I actually needed that particular hard drive, so I decided to put in a new hard drive. Now. no matter wheather the drive is in the HotSwap bay or not, I keep getting a kernel error saying:
ide1: status timeout: status=0xff {busy}

bstempi · 04-16-2003, 09:09 PM

oops, i didn't finnish the error; the rest went:
ide1: unexpected interrups, status = 0xff, count = 61759
hdc: drive not ready for command

And the damned thing keeps scrolling over and over every few seconds, which makes it really hard to reconfigure my Apache server. Please help.
~Brian

finegan · 04-16-2003, 10:11 PM

I've read about this in the past and even though you may have a hot-swapping bay, I'm pretty certain the kernel still doesn't support re-scanning IDE channels yet, something I stumbled accross while looking into software raid... poke around on google for a bit you'll probably find the same thing.

Cheers,

Finegan