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From: Jim Studt <jim@federated.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: sis5513 fatal udma problems
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:10:39 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101032110.PAA08416@core.federated.com> (raw)

The sis5513 has for quite a while had fatal problems with udma on some
machines.  (At least the thelinuxstore PIAs with the P6SET-ML
motherboard, I have heard other people with the same problem).

The sis5513 driver deliberatly overrides the CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO and
the BIOS settings that might disable UDMA and forces UDMA which works
for a while then fails, attempts to fallback to a non-DMA mode and
fails that as well.

The logs end up with something along the lines of...
  hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
  ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
  hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
  hdc: status timeout: status=0xd8 { Busy }
  hdc: DMA disabled
  hdc: drive not ready for command
  ide1: reset: success
  hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
  hdc: drive not ready for command
... but it nevers succeeds in the reset.  The drive never becomes ready.

I will make a patch, but I am uncertain what the `right' policy should
be.  I am inclined to first and foremost respect the CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO
flag, then to take the fastest mode which is both capable and enabled in
the bios.

Thoughts?  Please? :-)

-- 
                                     Jim Studt, President
                                     The Federated Software Group, Inc.
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             reply	other threads:[~2001-01-03 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-03 21:10 Jim Studt [this message]
2001-01-03 22:02 ` sis5513 fatal udma problems Steven Walter

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