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    SubjectRe: 2.6 more picky about IDE drives than 2.4 ?
    >>i have many problems with kernel 2.6.10 since it won't run stable with
    >>an IDE-device. It's an internal IDE-RAID subsystem. The DMA is
    >>frequently disabled, and even writes/reads fail and the kernel reports
    >>I/O-Errors for many sectors. The RAID-device doesn't report any errors
    >>it it's own event-log. You can have a closer look at the error-messages
    >>below.
    >>
    >>I'm mailing to the LKML, since i haven't been abled to reproduce the
    >>problem with a kernel 2.4 bases system, but it randomly happens with 2.6
    >>kernels. Let's take the latest Knoppix as an example (it comes with both
    >>kernels):
    >>- if i boot kernel 2.4, i can stress test the harddisk as much as i
    >>want. the kernel does report any problem and it doesn't disable DMA well
    >>- if i boot kernel 2.6, after a while, there are the error-message below
    >>in the log. "hdparm -k1" doesn't help, the kernel will disable DMA mode.
    >>There was a also a bigger problems for two times now, where the kernel
    >>refused to write to the devide, due to the I/O-Errors below. I'm very
    >>sad, that i haven't the log-lines prior to the I/O-Errors.
    >
    > You didn't give any information about your hardware (controller type,
    > drives used etc). Please read REPORTING-BUGS in the kernel source
    > directory. Also please find last working kernel version (2.5 or 2.6).

    The hardware used was a Intel 440GX Chipset (PIIX southbridge, max
    UDMA33), and a Sis 755 (SiS964 soutbridge, max UDMA133). The drive is an
    EasyRAID R5A.

    http://www.easyraid.com/index.php?Products:easyRAID_R5A

    >>I testes the RAID-subsystem with two different PC-systems. Always the
    >>same result: 2.4 works, 2.6 does not. It's hard for me to reproduce the
    >>Errors through. I'm still writing an application to reliably reproduce
    >>them :-( Does anybody know a good stress-test perhaps? Sequential
    >>reading doesn't seem to do the trick.
    >>
    >>What changes have been applied to the IDE subsystem from kernel 2.4 to
    >>kernel 2.6? What may cause this different behaviour? What does
    >>"status=0x51" mean? And why is "error=0x00" although the Error-Bit in
    >>the status-byte has been set. (i guess this is what status=0x51 means).
    >>
    >>How can the behaviour of kernel 2.6 be reverted to the behaviour of
    >>kernel 2.4? I already tried "hda=nowerr" in the append-line, but it
    >>doesn't help either. Is it a Bug of kernel 2.6, or should i smash the
    >>manufactures doors, to make them release a firmware-update of the
    >>RAID-subsystem since it reports strange values to the OS?
    >
    > Dunno, I don't have a magic ball... ;)

    So i guess you will not know The R5A, and the Problems of Kernel 2.6
    seems to be controller independant (Intel and SiS testen).
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