Re: ide retry on 2.4.5-ac7

Jens Axboe
2001-06-04T21:10:19Z

On Mon, Jun 04 2001, PROFETA Mickael wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:14:04PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > It worked sucessfully for you in 2.4.5-ac4 but not in -ac7? I can't see
> > any changes to the patch, so more details on the nature of the problem
> > would be helpful.
>
> Ok, this is the results of a hdparm -tT on my second hard disk:
>
> hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> ide1: reset: success
> 64 MB in 7.03 seconds = 9.10 MB/sec
>
> and then the kernel has shifted to udma3 and I have no more error in this
> session with that hard disk
>
> I tried the same thing on -ac7 and I always have the errors, the kernel does
> not reset ide... Looking at the different change on ac patches, I can not see
> why...

This is not the case that is attempted solve. The above could be a cable
error (it looks like it). These are usually genuine and indicate a real
hw problem.

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Jens Axboe