Re: VIA IDE bug with WD drive?

From: dep (dennispowell@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 19:56:43 EST

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On Wednesday 15 November 2000 19:30, Karnik, Rahul wrote:

| I get the following error if I try to enable DMA on my Abit KT7
| motherboard with a VIA2C686 chipset:
|
| hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
| } hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
| hda: DMA disabled
| hdb: DMA disabled
| ide0: reset: success

i get the same thing, along with a crc error, over and over on a
20-gig WD IDE drive. alternately puzzling and frightening.
apparently, wd uses some nonstandard goofball error checking thing
that just doesn't work with linux at present. it *seems* to do no
harm.

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