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From: Thomas Molina <tmolina@home.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Rachel Greenham <rachel@linuxgrrls.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VIA KT133A crash *post* 2.4.3-ac6
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 19:03:05 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106151858540.12619-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E159qX2-0001WC-00@the-village.bc.nu>

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> > With DMA (UDMA Mode 5) enabled, my machine crashes on kernel versions
> > from 2.4.3-ac7 onwards up to 2.4.5 right up to 2.4.5-ac13. 2.4.3 vanilla
> > and 2.4.3-ac6 are completely stable. -ac7 of course is when a load of
> > VIA fixes were done. :-}
>
> Unfortunately there isnt a great deal I can do but say 'talk to VIA'.
>
> > With DMA (any setting, but UDMA mode 5 preferred of course) enabled, on
> > kernels 2.4.3-ac7 and onwards, random lockup on disk access within first
> > few minutes of use - sometimes very quickly after boot, sometimes as
> > much as ten minutes later given use. Running bonnie -s 1024 once or
>
> Yep. Lots of people see these. I even have people reporting it and not reporting
> it on the same board.
>
> Only known cure its to not use DMA.

So is there no correlation from particular hardware to problems reported?
I'm running the A7V133 with a Western Digital WD300BB UDMA 5 drive on
kernel 2.4.5 with no trouble.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-16  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-12 12:10 VIA KT133A crash *post* 2.4.3-ac6 Rachel Greenham
2001-06-12 12:42 ` Christian Bornträger
2001-06-12 13:19   ` Rachel Greenham
2001-06-12 15:58   ` Alan Cox
2001-06-12 15:56 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-16  0:03   ` Thomas Molina [this message]
2001-06-16 10:15     ` Rachel Greenham
2001-06-16 13:42       ` Thomas Molina
2001-06-16 14:13         ` Christian Bornträger
2001-06-16 18:27           ` Rachel Greenham
2001-06-16 15:24         ` Rachel Greenham
2001-06-16 16:57           ` Justin Guyett
2001-06-16 17:25             ` Rachel Greenham
2001-06-17 11:56 Jason T. Collins

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