Re: PIIX4: DMA timeout issue

[gshan]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> gshan wrote:
> > Hello, I sent mails on this issue before, but nobody made response.
> > There are 2 types of board for me. The hardware configuration for
> > those 2 boards are almost same except that one of them has 100GB
> > harddisk, and another type of board has 60GB harddisk. All harddisk
> > was access through PIIX4. I found this issue on board with 60GB
> > disk, but can't reproduce it on that with 100GB disk.
> >
> > When I uncompressed a large file (600MB) to a logic partition with 8GB
> > size, following errors was report on middle way (5 minutes about from 
> > start).
> > Anybody has ideas?
> >
> > hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
> > hdc: DMA timeout error
> > hdc: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete 
> > DataRequest }
> > ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > hdc: DMA disabled
> > ide1: reset: success
>
> Can you try disabling the IDE driver (CONFIG_IDE) and enabling the 
> newer libata driver?  (CONFIG_ATA)
Jeff, thanks a lot for your suggestions. I will try it if possible.
>     Jeff

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