Re: IDE DMA failure w/ 2.3.99

From: Lorenzo Marcantonio (lomarcan@tin.it)
Date: Mon May 01 2000 - 06:06:20 EST


"Andrew" == Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au> writes:

> Machine is a Toshiba Satellite 4100XDVD. It's a P.O.S, BTW.
> Brand new, A$5,000 400MHz PII. It can't compile kernels. After
> sixty seconds we start getting sig11's in cc1. Sure sign of
> overheating. It also randomly inserts 4k blocks of 0xff's into
> files on 4k boundaries - does this about five times when doing a
> CVS checkout of a kernel tree. Fortunately it is a loaner.
> Unfortunately I'll be rid of it in a few days and can't promise
> to try patches.

> The machine sort-of works in PIO. With DMA it fails every few
> megabytes.

Same error as mine. I'll try patches if you can't ;). No, it's not
overheating... SOMETHING's wrong with late 2.3 kernels.

Now I'm EVEN MORE persuaded that there's something different in
Toshiba laptops (BTW, they work fine with 2.1, 2.2 series)

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