In article <1992Sep5.201920.3244@afterlife.ncsc.mil> swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff) writes:
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>I'm experiencing enough "HD-Timeout/HD-controller reset" messages to
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>My hardware is a 386@33, no 387; a Technology Power Sonic-386
>motherboard (with 8 Meg RAM), a Kouwei KW-556A controller (multi-I/O
>card), a Quantum LPS-105 (master) and a Maxtor 7213 (slave), a
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I've been having the same sort of problems, where sometimes the
hard drive will sit and spin with the drive activity light on,
then get a controller reset and work fine, under Linux.

I've seen the proposed kernel hack, and with a delay of 1000 the
timeouts happen only once in a blue moon, but the disk seems to be
significantly slower.

Here's the real bad thing: A friend of mine has a 7213A also, and
he's even getting drive hangs IN DOS!  This is a 386-25, with
a seagate 85-megger as master.  Mine is a 386-40, Forex chipset,
no way to change the bus speed, but the manual says it is 8 MHz
with a 386-40 in place.  He's also tried two similar but different
controllers, with no luck.

Anybody know anything about maxtor 7213A's hanging, especially
in DOS?

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>Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])

TIA,
        Keith
(mail to rohrer@math.grin.edu)

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