From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gshan Subject: Re: PIIX4: DMA timeout issue Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:58:28 +0800 Message-ID: <488FBCB4.4080609@alcatel-lucent.com> References: <488ED837.2060509@alcatel-lucent.com> <488F1C6C.9000002@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cnrelay03.alcatel-sbell.com.cn ([211.144.215.19]:52817 "EHLO mail.alcatel-sbell.com.cn" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758112AbYG3A65 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:58:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <488F1C6C.9000002@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux IDE mailing list Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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, thanks a lot for your suggestions. I will try it if possible. > > Jeff > > > >