Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:58:37 +0400 | From | Sergei Shtylyov <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup |
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Hello.
Alan Cox wrote:
>>Google seems to show that there is no publically available >>firmware updates for Maxtor disks.
> There are for some but only if you irritate the tech support people.
>>hours at high cpu usage.... There were maybe a a dozen DriveReady >>SeekComplete Timeout errors clustered a few minutes apart.
> That suggests the drive is having problems occassionally and that the DMA > path code then blows up when they occur.
>>Is there a way of viewing the contents of he command queue on >>the hard drive, to see if the command actually made it across?
> queue ? You are overestimating IDE ;)
He's not -- there is queued commands support since ATA[PI]-5. I'm not sure why but Linux decided not to support it.
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