Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:04:41 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup |
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> So what do you suggest? (I could buy an alternate ide controller, > and hope that goes away, or just buy a different hard drive. But > that's beside the point).
The DMA timeout itself could be all sorts of things - crap driver, crap hardware, PCI bus contention, noise, problem disk, phase of the moon.
> I can prepare a patch, but only with a lot of guidance. I can test > & debug, I'm highly motivated just right now ...
If you've got a nice repeatable problem please try using the libata driver. That handles the error paths differently and doesn't try a FIFO drain which might matter in this case I guess.
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