From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267415AbUJBRYp (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Oct 2004 13:24:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267466AbUJBRVF (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Oct 2004 13:21:05 -0400 Received: from pyramid-02.kattare.com ([69.59.195.3]:35270 "EHLO pyramid-02.kattare.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267438AbUJBRQX (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Oct 2004 13:16:23 -0400 Message-ID: <415EE25D.5090200@sherman.ca> Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:16:13 -0400 From: Adam Sherman User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Macintosh/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: DMA timeout error References: <58cb370e04100209432ec9c9ee@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58cb370e04100209432ec9c9ee@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.