Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

From: Christoph Anton Mitterer
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 18:43:33 EST



On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:38 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > btw: I'm cross posting this to lkml and debian-user,... hope nobody
> > feels offended :-)
>
> How much RAM is in your machine? There's a known problem with sata_nv
> ADMA with ATAPI devices and over 4GB of RAM.
Uhm *tadaaa* ... got 4GB ^^
Ok,.. so If this only applies to ATAPI devices it should be clear why my
SATA HDDs aren't affected ;)

> As a temporary workaround,
> you can boot with sata_nv.adma=0 on the kernel command line, or limit
> your memory with the mem= command line option so that memory over 4GB is
> not used.
Great,.. will have a try tomorrow :-)

Is this already fixed in git?

best wishes,
Chris.

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