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DateMon, 14 Mar 2005 23:20:59 -0600
FromRobert Hancock <>
SubjectRe: Awful long timeouts for flash-file-system
linux-os wrote:
>
> Hello IDE experts.
>
> I am trying to use a SanDisk SDCFB-256, CFA DISK drive. This
> is supposed to emulate an IDE drive and does (sort of). However,
> upon boot, the boot-code keeps trying and trying and trying to
> do SOMETHING that aparently isn't even necessary because the
> virtual disk is accessible and can be written/read and I can
> even boot from it.

> hdb: max request size: 128KiB
> hdb: 501760 sectors (256 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=980/16/32, DMA
> hdb: cache flushes not supported
> hdb:<4>hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61

I'm assuming you're using a CF-to-IDE adapter to hook up the card. Most
likely your CompactFlash card is indicating that it supports DMA and the
kernel is trying to use it. However, many CF-to-IDE adapters don't hook
up the DMA control lines properly so the requests all time out until the
kernel gives up using DMA.

We use some Mesa Electronics CF-IDE adapters at work - some of the newer
ones have some jumpers with positions NOR and DMA, DMA works if the
jumpers are set to the DMA position. I don't think we've tried using any
DMA-supporting CF cards on the older ones without these jumpers.

If the adapter you're using doesn't do DMA, I believe that if you use
options like hdb=nodma or ide1=nodma, etc. that will get the kernel to
not try and use it.

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