Re: Crashing with Abit KT7, 2.2.19+ide patches

Tim Moore
2001-08-28T16:56:44Z

Nicholas Lee wrote:
>
> I managed to catch one of these crash the system messages:
>
> Aug 28 14:07:51 hoppa kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> Aug 28 14:07:51 hoppa kernel: hda: ide_dma_timeout: Lets do it again!stat = 0xd0, dma_stat = 0x20
> Aug 28 14:07:51 hoppa kernel: hda: DMA disabled
> Aug 28 14:07:51 hoppa kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0x80 { Busy }
> Aug 28 14:07:51 hoppa kernel: hda: DMA disabled
> Aug 28 14:07:51 hoppa kernel: hda: ide_set_handler: handler not null; old=c018f67c, new=c018f67c
> Aug 28 14:07:51 hoppa kernel: bug: kernel timer added twice at c018f526.
> Aug 28 14:07:53 hoppa kernel: ide0: reset: success

It might be a side effect. Never try to resolve more than one issue at
a time.

Remove all non-critical PCI cards and drives except the system disk,
then play with swapping IDE cables and generating disk I/O till no more
timeouts.
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