Re: DMA timeout error and then kernel halted

[Andreas Steinmetz]

Jan Mynarik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have DMA problems with HPT366 on BP6 (newest BIOS version RU incl.
> 1.28 BIOS for HPT366) and Seagate's 80 GB disk (please see exact model
> numbers in attached dmesg).
>
> It's reproducible (with or without SMP, various kernel versions,
> overclocking or not, ACPI on and off) on 2.4.22 and 2.6.0 (test9, test11
> and vanilla) and 2.6.1-rc3. On 2.4 kernel it doesn't halt kernel.

I do have similar problems with a HPT302 and WD2500JB disks on a Tyan 
S2885 (Dual Opteron 246). What does help me is to disable the IO-APICs 
at boot time using "noapic".

Thus I don't believe this to be a disk/mobo problem but probably a 
driver problem.
--
Andreas Steinmetz

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