My ide1 is back!!!

[jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov]

Hi Cheryl,
Well, DMA means Direct Memory Access.  I'm not sure why a DMA channel 
would timeout--but its possible that you have a chip that is overheating 
somewhere.  You may have the dreaded intermittent problem in electronics 
because it is so hard to diagnose.  Kerry, have you ever heard of DMA 
failure?

      Jim Wantz WB0TFK
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Hey, this is kind of strange, because this is not the first time I've shut the
> computer down since i started having the problem with ide1 (my cdrom and cdrw0.
> I had also shut it down for several hours sunday night/Monday morning. However,
> early this morning when I went to bed, I still had no irq for ide1 and only hdc
> was opening. This morning I got up and turned on the computer and booted linux.
> Just to re-confirm the worst, I tried opening the cdrom and it opened. then i
> tried mounting both and they mounted. I assume that when hdd timed out it took
> the whole ide with it somehow but I don't know why it finally came back or what
> i could have maybe killed or reactiviated to have fixed it sooner. anyway, I'm
> very happy I don't have to pay to get it fixed.
> 
> Cheryl
> 
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