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SubjectRe: Hardware bug or kernel bug?
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Ar Gwe, 2006-10-13 am 17:24 +0100, ysgrifennodd David Johnson:
> IDE controller, then continuing. Could the same thing be happening in Linux?
> If Linux can't talk to the IDE controller when trying to write to disk, how
> does it handle that?

It will timeout and then retry the command. It's not the most ideal
situation to end up in but I'd expect to see a DMA timeout and a retry
or two in the log not a crash.

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