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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Johnson <dj@david-web.co.uk>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hardware bug or kernel bug?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:11:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160759511.25218.65.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610131724.40631.dj@david-web.co.uk>

Ar Gwe, 2006-10-13 am 17:24 +0100, ysgrifennodd David Johnson:
> IDE controller, then continuing. Could the same thing be happening in Linux? 
> If Linux can't talk to the IDE controller when trying to write to disk, how 
> does it handle that?

It will timeout and then retry the command. It's not the most ideal
situation to end up in but I'd expect to see a DMA timeout and a retry
or two in the log not a crash.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-13 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <200610131256.54546.dj@david-web.co.uk>
     [not found]   ` <20061013130648.GC1690@ff.dom.local>
2006-10-13 16:24     ` Hardware bug or kernel bug? David Johnson
2006-10-13 17:11       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-10-16 10:25       ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-10-16 14:32         ` David Johnson
2006-10-17  7:10           ` Jarek Poplawski

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