I have loaded redhat 6.1 on 5 brand new HP Brio BA- 400 models (disk is ST38421A) and get the same error message on all of them . I doubt there is a hardware problem. Redhat loads ok but any intense disk I/O and the following Error appears on the console Jan 8 04:02:18 newrh kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy } Jan 8 04:02:18 newrh kernel: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE Jan 8 04:02:18 newrh kernel: ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=4 Jan 8 04:02:18 newrh kernel: ide0: reset: success Please help
Reviewing websites and mailing lists, most of these problems were 'fixed' in later Red Hat kernels for 6.2 and beyond. The problems look to be chipset related and the support that 6.1 had for it.