From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic on PC with broken hard drive, after DMA errors
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:03:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <440FA916.5070703@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5Okau-77g-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> My laptop hard drive recently died (or is in the process of dying).
> HP wanted me to do some more tests before sending me a replacement, so
> I tried booting Linux again today. I got lots of DMA errors, which
> was really to be expected, but then I got a kernel panic. While I'd
> not blame the kernel when a panic occurs with broken RAM or CPU, I'm
> sure sure the kernel should panic just because of a broken IDE drive.
>
> I posted a picture of the panic at http://cyrius.com/tmp/ide_panic.jpg
> Is this something that can be fixed or is my hardware really so broken
> that the kernel cannot deal with it?
Probably is a genuine bug. These kinds of reports have come up a few
times recently as I recall - it seems some of the error handling in the
drivers/ide code isn't quite so robust..
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Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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2006-03-09 4:03 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-03-09 15:14 ` Kernel panic on PC with broken hard drive, after DMA errors Martin Michlmayr
2006-03-09 16:45 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-09 16:53 ` Martin Michlmayr
2006-03-09 18:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-27 7:06 ` Martin Michlmayr
2006-03-09 3:29 Martin Michlmayr
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