Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> > There are two distinct issues.
> > -- libata locks up in partition table read on an hpt366+old maxtor disk
> >   that has ben working fine for many years with old ide driver. (It
> >   still works fine when I boot to the alternate ide-based kernel).

> > -- ide driver locks up on hpt366+new maxtor disk under heavy 
> >   i/o load. I was able to copy 60GB from old to new disk without a
> >   problem; however, raid reconstruction locks it up, maybe after 5-15
> >   seconds.

> >   This probably is "hardware related"; its something that the new 
> >   hard drive does. Given that its being sold at a big discount, it
> >   may even be that the sellers know that this is a crappy disk. :-)

> >   All I want is some way of resetting the disk, and continuing on.

> It would be useful to see hdparm --Istdout output for *both* disks.

> > I'm stalled in debugging; I'm not sue what I'm looking for.

> Sergei, do you think that testing the drive with DMA disabled may
> tell us something new?

   Not sure. I'll try to come up with a patch esetting the state machine in 
dma_timeout() method (following Alan's idea) -- HPT366 regs are different 
enough to use the one for HPT370.

> Thanks,
> Bart

MBR, Sergei
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