Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 DMA question

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 2/26/06, Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:17, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> > > But perhaps someone may successfully implement this.
> >
> > Unfortunately my machines only have SCSI devices, so I'd have no way
> > to actually test a patch, otherwise I'd be happy to give it a shot - a
> > parameter to disable the behaviour shouldn't be too difficult to
> > implement, and if the default stays as the current behaviour then it
> > shouldn't be too controversial.
> > I wouldn't mind trying to hack up a patch, but it would be untested...
>
> Post it to me - but look at my original post - this is/was on kernel 2.4.32.
> I have yet to see such output on 2.6.x series kernels.
>
> I could test that for you, as I have a test box at work running 2.4.32 that
> gets these strange disk errors sometimes (never have nailed that one down).
>

I haven't been looked at 2.4.x for years, so whatever patch I cook up
would be for 2.6.x

My time currently is limited so it'll probably be a few days before I
have something ready for you to test, but thank you very much for the
offer, I'll get back to you shortly after I've embedded myself in the
IDE code and hopefully cooked something up that makes sense for you to
test.

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