Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Oct 1999 04:17:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.x: "hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE", but not on 2.0.x kernels |
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Yes it has a lot to do with runing an ATA-66 device on an ATA-33 controller. If the bios can not get it correct, because it is "miniport" handi-capped..............you basically nuke the BIOS values/settings and start from scratch.........
For the love of PnP BIOS code.................gad......
Andre Hedrick The Linux IDE guy
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> > I recieve the following kernel error message at random times throughout the > > day (approx 10/hour): > > Same over here. Got a new box with new harddisk yesterday, installed RedHat > 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5 with many undocumented patches) and had the same problems. > > Board: MSI 6161 > Harddisk: Seagate ST34311A > > After upgrading to vanilla kernel 2.2.13 there were slightly fewer errors > (compiling the kernel provokes 'em very reliably). > > Digging in the source I found the following in drivers/block/ide.c: > > * A few rare drives vastly violate the 400ns spec here, > * so we'll wait up to 10usec for a "good" status > * rather than expensively fail things immediately. > > This leads me to the impression, that this Seagate drive was one which even > exceeds this additional timeout. Increasing this additional timeout even more > didn't help so I gave up and got a RMA# from our distributor today. Tomorrow > I will get the replacement drive (same model) and re-check with this one. > > > I have reproduced the error on 4 identical computers, > > and 2 that are similarly configured (give or take a few megahertz and > > motherboards). > > Hm, could you verify wether all drives are Seagate? This looks being a common > point. > > > Would it have anything to do with the fact that the drive is UDMA/66? > > I don't think so. I was running the drive in standard, non-DMA mode. > > > Daniel > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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