Re: why am i getting this message..

["Biju Nair" <bnair@xxxxxxxxx>]

oops... it is a brand new machine. i purchased it just a few weeks back.
can you please tell me what this DRQ means & what it is trying to WRITE ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Pichai Asokan <pasokan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, October 29, 1999 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: why am i getting this message..


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>On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Biju Nair wrote:
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>> 
>>     hda : status timed out : status =0xd0{Busy}
>>     hda : no DRQ after issuing WRITE
>>     ide0 : reset :success.
>I think this means that your hard disk is in trouble. (Can others
>confirm?)
>I have got this message 3 times in the past and each time it was
> on a old hard disk. Two of them, worked well after a low-level
> format; but the third did not survive the llf.
>P Asokan 
> 
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