The sis5513 has for quite a while had fatal problems with udma on some
machines. (At least the thelinuxstore PIAs with the P6SET-ML
motherboard, I have heard other people with the same problem).
The sis5513 driver deliberatly overrides the CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO and
the BIOS settings that might disable UDMA and forces UDMA which works
for a while then fails, attempts to fallback to a non-DMA mode and
fails that as well.
The logs end up with something along the lines of...
hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdc: status timeout: status=0xd8 { Busy }
hdc: DMA disabled
hdc: drive not ready for command
ide1: reset: success
hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdc: drive not ready for command
... but it nevers succeeds in the reset. The drive never becomes ready.
I will make a patch, but I am uncertain what the `right' policy should
be. I am inclined to first and foremost respect the CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO
flag, then to take the fastest mode which is both capable and enabled in
the bios.
Thoughts? Please? :-)
--
Jim Studt, President
The Federated Software Group, Inc.
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