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On Fri, 9 May 2003, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> I can't believe this still isn't fixed!
>
> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: dma_intr: bad DMA status (dma_stat=30)
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
>
> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: dma_intr: bad DMA status (dma_stat=30)
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
>
> My hda is in perfect health and this does not happen on the same
> hardware with 2.4.* or 2.5.63. I reported this before and got the
> answer that to fix this, recent changes in the IDE code would have to be
> reverted. Apparently I was unreasonably hasty in assuming that that
> would be done now that the need to do it has been established.
>
> I would appreciate it if the fix would be integrated into 2.5.70.
>
> Amazing: the only hardware components in my machine that actually work
> as expected with recent Linux 2.5 kernels are the network cards, the RAM
> and the keyboard, and I had to replace a tulip card with an eepro100 for
> that. Even the CPU appears to run too hot with Linux, causing the
> system to boot spontaneously under load, and because ACPI is terminally
> broken in Linux and has been every time I tried it, I can't do much
> about it. Firewire does not like me (modprobe eth1394 -> oops), IDE
> loses interrupts (see above), my USB mouse stops working as soon as I
> plug in my USB hard disk (which works fine on my notebook and under
> Windows), using my IDE CD-R causes the machine to freeze while cdrecord
> does OTP, finalizing or eject. The nvidia graphics card takes major
> patching to work at all with X, and all of these components are
> well-known brand components from tier 1 suppliers that were chosen for
> reliability and market penetration over price. I envy people who can
> still evangelize Linux under circumstances like this. I sure as hell
> can not.
>
> Felix
So what are you waiting for? Stop whining and start hacking now!
-- Bartlomiej
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