From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:29:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:29:41 -0500 Received: from adsl-67-114-192-42.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net ([67.114.192.42]:45847 "EHLO mx1.corp.rackable.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 20:29:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3E236A0F.2080605@rackable.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:38:23 -0800 From: Samuel Flory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Soeren Sonnenburg CC: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: system freezes when using udma on promise pdc20268 References: <1042492068.1199.11.camel@sun> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Jan 2003 01:38:26.0501 (UTC) FILETIME=[A2168750:01C2BB6D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: >Hi! > >I experience cold freezes of my new system reproducably (can still >toggle numlock, but on alt+sysrq+t it freezes completely, watchdog_nmi=1 >does not help so no printout over serial console) when I enable any >udma mode >0 using the old or new pdc202xx driver. > >However the system seems to work stably (as far I can tell) when using >the mdma0 or pio modes. > >The setup is asus a7v8x with sound/ide/firewire onboard. Two 180GB WDC >WD1800JB-00DUA0 on the primary and secondary internal VIA controller and >3 drives on two pdc20268, where the third hard disk is on the secondary >controller (I explain later why!). All harddisk are jumpered to be >master's. > > Are you stating this correctly. You've got 2 drives on the PDC20268 on a single ide chain jumpered as masters? You should have one jumpered as a master and a as a slave. A single ide chain can have only one master. -- There is no such thing as obsolete hardware. Merely hardware that other people don't want. (The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory