Re: PIIX4: DMA timeout issue

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Tue Jul 29 2008 - 09:34:53 EST


gshan wrote:
Hello, I sent mails on this issue before, but nobody made response.
There are 2 types of board for me. The hardware configuration for
those 2 boards are almost same except that one of them has 100GB
harddisk, and another type of board has 60GB harddisk. All harddisk
was access through PIIX4. I found this issue on board with 60GB
disk, but can't reproduce it on that with 100GB disk.

When I uncompressed a large file (600MB) to a logic partition with 8GB
size, following errors was report on middle way (5 minutes about from start).
Anybody has ideas?

hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
hdc: DMA timeout error
hdc: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hdc: DMA disabled
ide1: reset: success

Can you try disabling the IDE driver (CONFIG_IDE) and enabling the newer libata driver? (CONFIG_ATA)

Jeff




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