Re: Reboot when accessing IDE CD on SC450NX with 2.2.x

Paul Fulghum (paulkf@microgate.com)
Mon, 29 Mar 1999 04:43:53 -0600


There is an option in the block device configuration
for the kernel that says 'use DMA on IDE if available'
or something to that effect.

You might try setting this to not use DMA if available
just to see if that let's it run in PIO mode without a reboot.

Paul Fulghum, paulkf@microgate.com
Microgate Corporation, www.microgate.com
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Austin, TX 78759
(512)-345-7791

----- Original Message -----
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Cc: Eric Lee Green <eric@linux-hw.com>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 1999 1:12 PM
Subject: Reboot when accessing IDE CD on SC450NX with 2.2.x

> Hi,
>
> The SC450NX (Quad Pentium II Xeon, 1 GB memory) reboots spontaneously
> using any 2.2.x kernel I tried (2.2.3, 2.2.4 and 2.2.5) when accessing
> the IDE CD-ROM (Toshiba XM6302B), connected as primary master (there
> is only one IDE interface on that system). This is the case for both
> SMP and non-SMP kernels. The kernel says something about a DMA timeout
> for hda and then reboots spontaneously.
>
> The 2.0.36 (non-SMP) kernel works fine with the same configuration and
> accesses the CD-ROM without any problem.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks,
>
> --
> -- Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
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> -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
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