Re: hda: error: DMA in progress..

From: Stelian Pop (stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 03:54:57 EST


On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 04:57:24PM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote:

> Martin, I have the same problem on my Sony Vaio C1VE,
> Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01), HITACHI_DK23AA-12 disk.
>
> It doesn't even boot, the "DMA in progress error..." appears just
> after having mounted the root partition. 2.5.23 worked on this laptop.

Ok, after poking around the "waiting_for_dma" changes, I found that
the attached patch is solving all my problems, my laptop works again.

BIG FAT WARNING: I have a very limited knowledge in the ide driver
internals, the attached patch could destroy all your data!

Please advice.

Stelian.

===== include/linux/ide.h 1.90 vs edited =====
--- 1.90/include/linux/ide.h Thu Jun 20 13:35:15 2002
+++ edited/include/linux/ide.h Mon Jun 24 10:17:00 2002
@@ -766,10 +766,12 @@
  */
 static inline ide_startstop_t udma_init(struct ata_device *drive, struct request *rq)
 {
- int ret = drive->channel->udma_init(drive, rq);
- if (ret == ide_started)
- set_bit(IDE_DMA, drive->channel->active);
-
+ int ret;
+
+ set_bit(IDE_DMA, drive->channel->active);
+ ret = drive->channel->udma_init(drive, rq);
+ if (ret != ide_started)
+ clear_bit(IDE_DMA, drive->channel->active);
         return ret;
 }
 

-- 
Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>
Alcove - http://www.alcove.com
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