From: Adam Sherman <adam@sherman.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DMA timeout error
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:16:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <415EE25D.5090200@sherman.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e04100209432ec9c9ee@mail.gmail.com>
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>I have a VIA M6000 board with an ATA CompactFlash adaptor containing a
>>512MB SanDisk card.
>>
>>I get the following error during boot:
>>
>>hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
>>hdb: DMA timeout error
>>hdb: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
>
>
> If this is a new CF capable of DMA but CF-to-IDE adapter doesn't support
> DMA (most don't) then "ide=nodma" kernel command line parameter should
> do the job. It might be also bug in via82cxxx host driver.
>
> Maybe DMA should be off by default for CF but it requires fixing almost
> every IDE host driver and why punish good hardware.
This makes quite a bit of sense seeing as it's a SanDisk "Ultra II" card.
beber@setibzh.com writes:
> add pci=noapic to your boot option
Since the hardware is not reachable from here, I can not test it until
Monday. I'll note my results though.
Thanks,
A.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-02 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-01 18:56 DMA timeout error Adam Sherman
2004-10-02 16:43 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-02 17:16 ` Adam Sherman [this message]
2004-10-02 17:16 ` Beber
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