Re: Kernel panic on PC with broken hard drive, after DMA errors

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2006-03-09 16:45]:
> > The dying hard drive is quite arbitrary when it comes to showing
> > errors or working fine...
> 
> Ancient known problem. I'd be interested if you can however break
> libata and the PATA IDE patches the same way.

Sorry, but I'm not able to give you more information.  I tried again
several times with PATA and never saw the oops again, so I don't think
trying libata would help since not seeing an oops wouldn't mean
anything at all.  Unless there is a _specific_ way to trigger this bug
("cause much disk IO" isn't enough because it only led to an oops once
out of maybe something like 30-40 tries) I cannot do anything.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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