Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

[Julien Wajsberg <julien.wajsberg@gmail.com>]

On Mar 26, 2005 12:59 AM, Julien Wajsberg <julien.wajsberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> I own an Asus A8N-Sli motherboard with the Nforce4-Sli chipset, and I
> experiment the following problem :
> 
> Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60
> Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: DMA timeout retry
> Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel:
> Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
> Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel:
> Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hdb: DMA disabled
> Mar 25 22:42:55 evenflow kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
> 
> Of course, if I disable DMA with hdparm, this problem disappear.. but
> it isn't a long-term solution ;-)
> 
> Using vanilla 2.6.11.5 kernel. I attached the config file.

I tried the multidma mode (as opposed to ultradma), and the system
hanged immediately. (Thanks to the patched-for-netpoll forcedeth
driver), I got the following message:

Unknown interrupt or fault at EIP 00000206 00000060 c0247a3a

There's definitely something wrong here...
I'm still using the same setup as in my first mail.

-- 
Julien