Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Jan 2003 13:52:41 -0800 | From | Ross Biro <> | Subject | Re: DMA timeouts on Promise 20267 IDE card |
| |
James Curbo wrote:
>[please cc: me as I am not subscribed to lkml] > >I've recently started getting errors like this (this example is from >2.4.20-pre3-ac2): > >Jan 9 14:20:48 carthage kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == >0x61 >Jan 9 14:20:48 carthage kernel: hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == >0x21 > > I believe the low bit set in the dma_status means that the DMA transfer is still in progress. Since the timer has expired, that means it's been in progress for 10 seconds. Odds are the drive has stopped responding. Since it's a Western Digital drive, it probably needs to be powercycled to come back.
I don't think this is a problem with the controller card, but I could be wrong.
Ross
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |