From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Richard Wohlstadter <rwohlsta@watson.wustl.edu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Subject: Re: dma problems with Serverworks CSB5 chipset
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:31:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091554289.3898.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040803180821.GB6265@logos.cnet>
On Maw, 2004-08-03 at 19:08, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> ServerWorks OSB4/5 chipsets are known to not work reliably with the Linux
> IDE code. AFAIK its a hardware problem which we dont correctly work around.
>
> Have you tried disabling DMA?
>
> Bart and Alan are IDE experts, they can probably give you more useful
> information.
CSB5 is reliable, rock solidly so in my experience. OSB4 was the older
interface with problems. Are these systems SMP, what disks are you using
and in what IDE mode ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-03 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-28 17:38 dma problems with Serverworks CSB5 chipset Richard Wohlstadter
2004-08-03 18:08 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-03 17:31 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-03 18:47 ` Rich Wohlstadter
2004-08-08 18:09 ` Torbjörn Olander
2004-08-23 18:59 ` Torbjörn Olander
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