Re: DMA problems w/ PIIX3 IDE, 2.4.20-pre4-ac2

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 04:26:24PM +0200, Florian Hinzmann wrote:
> 
> On 16-Sep-2002 Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 12:17, Florian Hinzmann wrote:
> >> kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> >> kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=97567071, high=5, lo
> >> kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> > 
> > Which is the drive reporting a physical media error
> 
> Which seems to exist only while using the named combinations of DMA access
> and kernel versions. While using i.e. 2.4.19 without DMA I can access the same data,
> dd the whole disk to /dev/null or run badblock checks without finding
> any physical media errors.

Let me get this straight.  If you run this exact procedure, what happens?

1. start with DMA turned on
2. dd the whole disk to /dev/null
3. disable DMA
4. dd the whole disk to /dev/null
5. re-enable DMA
6. dd the whole disk to /dev/null
7. disable DMA
8. dd the whole disk to /dev/null

Are you saying that steps 2 and 6 produce a sectoridnotfound error, while
step 4 and 8 works without problem?

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