From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: What determines which interrupts are shared under Linux? Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:54:39 -0400 Message-ID: <44E3A22F.20400@rtr.ca> References: <44E1D760.6070600@atipa.com> <1155654379.24077.286.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44E1E719.6020005@atipa.com> <1155657316.24077.293.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44E208AD.8060505@atipa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:29593 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932314AbWHPWyk (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:54:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <44E208AD.8060505@atipa.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Roger Heflin Cc: Alan Cox , Linux-Kernel , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Roger Heflin wrote: > > It looks like the older DMA recovery code never works on this chipset, > once it goes into DMA recovery it never comes out of it. I am looking > at that to see if anything can be done about it. You could try booting with ide2=serialize as a kernel parameter. That should ensure the two channels are never in use simultaneously. Trades off a bit of performance for a bit of reliability. Cheers