Re: Kernel panic on PC with broken hard drive, after DMA errors

From: Martin Michlmayr
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 11:51:34 EST


* Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2006-03-09 16:45]:
> Ancient known problem. I'd be interested if you can however break
> libata and the PATA IDE patches the same way.

I can try, but like I said, the hard drive acts pretty arbitrarily and
won't always fail when I want it to. Do you know if there's a way to
trigger the problem? Otherwise I'll just try a couple of times,
but without a good way to trigger the problem I cannot really say if
it's gone with libata.
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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