From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010608 Description of problem: Every time I boot or try to install I recieve an error that repeats for about 3-5min here is the error "partition check: hda: hda: timeout waiting for dma hda: irq timeout: status=x58 {DriverReady SeekComplete DataRequest}" This error keeps repeating for 3-5min then the system boots like normal. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot the system 2.Try to install from the cd 3. Additional info: I have a ATA 100mb Western Digital Hard-Drive 30gb.
Does it work if you pass "ide=nodma" to the lilo / syslinux prompt ?
I will try that tonight.
I too have this problem anytime I try to mound a CD. Additionally my system is locked up while I am getting all of the timeouts. Adding 'ide=nodma' to the lilo command line fixes the problem. Malcolm
Yea I tried the "ide=nodma" and my system works like a charm now. Thanks alot for the help. So does that mean that Kernal 2.4 doesn't support the 100mb transfer rate of the new IDE hard-drives?
The kernel supports it, but it seems that once it tries to use it, your hardware starts to give errors. This is most often the result of a cableproblem. Is your IDE cable of the "80 ribbon" type, and not too long ?