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Subject: Re: Hardware bug or kernel bug?
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:11:51 +0100
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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.