Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Hello.

Alan Cox wrote:

> > Google seems to show that there is no publically available 
> > firmware updates for Maxtor disks.

> There are for some but only if you irritate the tech support people.

> > hours at high cpu usage.... There were maybe a a dozen DriveReady
> > SeekComplete Timeout errors clustered a few minutes apart.  

> That suggests the drive is having problems occassionally and that the DMA
> path code then blows up when they occur.

> > Is there a way of viewing the contents of he command queue on
> > the hard drive, to see if the command actually made it across?

> queue ? You are overestimating IDE ;)

   He's not -- there is queued commands support since ATA[PI]-5. I'm not sure 
why but Linux decided not to support it.

MBR, Sergei
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