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#78307 - 07/03/2002 10:01 Failed to unmask IDE
Anonymous
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That's what it said while trying to boot up. This has never happened before and it booted up fine on the second try. I'm using 2 beta 11. Is this something to worry about?

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#78308 - 07/03/2002 10:11 Re: Failed to unmask IDE [Re: ]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14472
Loc: Canada
>That's what it said while trying to boot up.
>Is this something to worry about?

I don't think so (I wrote the kernel code that results in that message). It's a probabilistic thing in the kernel, dependent on how much I/O is going on at the time, with a 3 second timeout.

I suspect the player issues the unmask command at the same time that lots of other disk I/O is happening, and sometimes it just doesn't get done within the three second allowance.

(note that there's been a "fixme" note on that code since the beginning, but nobody's ever gone back and fixed it).

I'll increase the timeout to 6 seconds in the next Hijack kernel.

Cheers

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#78309 - 07/03/2002 15:13 Re: Failed to unmask IDE [Re: mlord]
Nic
stranger

Registered: 31/12/2001
Posts: 38
Loc: Marlow, UK
My empeg had been getting that message a few times. I had put it down to my rapidly failing IDE cable, which I've since replaced. Since then I haven't seen the message at all. The message never failed to go away without a swift reboot

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#78310 - 08/03/2002 17:33 Re: Failed to unmask IDE [Re: mlord]
Anonymous
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Thanks

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#78311 - 05/06/2002 12:07 Re: Failed to unmask IDE [Re: mlord]
Derek
addict

Registered: 16/08/1999
Posts: 453
Loc: NRW, Germany
Just had this for the first time on my empeg yesterday, running Hijack 271 ... does this kernel have a fix for this in it?
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