Re: IDE DMA/irq timeouts

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:33:15 +0100 (BST)


> Since upgrading our servers to kernel version 2.2.10 and 2.2.12 I have
> noticed increasing instability with the hard discs.

There are basically no IDE changes between 2.2.10 and 2.2.12.

> The servers I use (all single processor configurations) present the
> following errors:
>
> hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> hda: DMA disabled

Did you build 2.2.10 without IDE_DMA_AUTOTUNE and 2.2.12 with it ?

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