Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:22:58 +0000 | From | Joel Cant <> | Subject | Re: Promise IDE DMA issue |
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John Wong wrote:
>Latest 1.009 BIOS flashed last night. I'll try out some BIOS settings, >but the settings work fine with Windows XP. That's why I think it could >be something with the driver. This is with the PDC202XX_NEW on kernel >2.6.10 The DMA timeout happens sporadically, but as of yet, has yet to >reoccur. The change from 1.008 to 1.009 mentions nothing about the >Promide IDE. > >John > >On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:00:59PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>John Wong wrote: >> >> >>>I recently upgraded fron a nVidia nForce2 MCP-T based A7NX-DX >>>motherboard to an A8V DX, Via K8T800 Pro. Now occassionally, I get >>>DMA issues on a drive attached to a Promise 133 TX2 controller (20269). >>> >>> >>I would try fiddling with BIOS settings, and make sure you have the >>latest BIOS. >> >> Jeff >> >> >> >> >> >> Sounds simlar to the problems i'm having with the channels resetting under heavy load, and then fudging DMA, and i'm not the only one havign these issues, seems its a common problem with these cards, not sure if theres been some slight changes in the chip itself or wether there is a fault with the kernel driver, as you say, it seems that the problem does not occour under windows.
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