From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Johnson <dj@david-web.co.uk>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hardware bug or kernel bug?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:11:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160759511.25218.65.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610131724.40631.dj@david-web.co.uk>
Ar Gwe, 2006-10-13 am 17:24 +0100, ysgrifennodd David Johnson:
> IDE controller, then continuing. Could the same thing be happening in Linux?
> If Linux can't talk to the IDE controller when trying to write to disk, how
> does it handle that?
It will timeout and then retry the command. It's not the most ideal
situation to end up in but I'd expect to see a DMA timeout and a retry
or two in the log not a crash.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-13 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-12 16:53 Hardware bug or kernel bug? David Johnson
2006-10-12 17:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-12 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-13 9:20 ` David Johnson
2006-10-13 8:56 ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-10-13 9:20 ` David Johnson
2006-10-13 10:58 ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-10-13 11:56 ` David Johnson
2006-10-13 13:06 ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-10-13 16:24 ` David Johnson
2006-10-13 17:11 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-10-16 10:25 ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-10-16 14:32 ` David Johnson
2006-10-17 7:10 ` Jarek Poplawski
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