From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 5 May 2001 14:38:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 5 May 2001 14:38:19 -0400 Received: from tomts13.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.34]:13307 "EHLO tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 5 May 2001 14:38:04 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Ed Tomlinson Organization: me To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Linux 2.4.4-ac5; hpt370 & new dma setup Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 14:37:53 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01050514375300.14219@oscar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org thunder7@xs4all.nl wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:24:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ >> >> Intermediate diffs are available from >> >> http://www.bzimage.org >> >> Please test this code **carefully** if using an HPT366/370 IDE controller as >> there are driver changes there. Otherwise its mostly just catching up with >> the bugfixes. >> >> 2.4.4-ac5 >> o Fix DMA setup on hpt366/370 (Tim Hockin) > > I see definite changes; on heavy disk-access I got the following: > > hdg: timeout waiting for dma > ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only:14 > hdg: irq timeout: status = 0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest} > > this was repeated several times, and ide3 was being reset, but the > kernel hung anyway after 5 minutes of waiting. > > I must have an unlucky set of hardware (via chipset VP6 board, Live!, > ibm drives). Funny I have had the same problem with 2.4.4 only with a pdc20267 (reported to lkml with topic '[BUG] pdc20267 and dma timeouts') Is there some problem with resets on ide2/3? TIA Ed Tomlinson Ed Tomlinson