From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264436AbTDWTKl (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:10:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264437AbTDWTKl (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:10:41 -0400 Received: from www.interclean.com ([152.160.178.8]:61320 "EHLO mail.interclean.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264436AbTDWTKj (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:10:39 -0400 Message-ID: From: David Brodbeck To: "'motion@lists.frogtown.com'" , andras@t-online.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, motion@frogtown.com Subject: RE: [Motion] Re: IDE corruption during heavy bt878-induced interr upt load [LKM] Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:22:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > -----Original Message----- > From: joe briggs [mailto:jbriggs@briggsmedia.com] > I am glad that you mentioned ext3 because while I curse > ReiserFS, I really > don't think that it is part of the problem. Definately > PCI-dma related, but > does onboard IDE (i.e., my system disk) use DMA in the same > way that a PCI > adapter such as Promise does? I'm not a hardware expert, but since on-board IDE controllers usually appear as PCI devices to the OS, I assume they do DMA the same way.