From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: PIIX4: DMA timeout issue Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:34:36 -0400 Message-ID: <488F1C6C.9000002@garzik.org> References: <488ED837.2060509@alcatel-lucent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:60169 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753525AbYG2Nel (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:34:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <488ED837.2060509@alcatel-lucent.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: gshan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux IDE mailing list gshan wrote: > Hello, I sent mails on this issue before, but nobody made response. > There are 2 types of board for me. The hardware configuration for > those 2 boards are almost same except that one of them has 100GB > harddisk, and another type of board has 60GB harddisk. All harddisk > was access through PIIX4. I found this issue on board with 60GB > disk, but can't reproduce it on that with 100GB disk. > > When I uncompressed a large file (600MB) to a logic partition with 8GB > size, following errors was report on middle way (5 minutes about from > start). > Anybody has ideas? > > hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 > hdc: DMA timeout error > hdc: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } > ide: failed opcode was: unknown > hdc: DMA disabled > ide1: reset: success Can you try disabling the IDE driver (CONFIG_IDE) and enabling the newer libata driver? (CONFIG_ATA) Jeff