Messages in this thread | | | From | BROWN Nick <> | Subject | RE: ide drive w/dma enabled causing system crash | Date | Sun, 9 May 1999 22:22:58 +0200 |
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I got a similar problem just now on a Western Digital 3.2 GB disk. It occurred while testing Andre Hedrick's patches, but I was able to reproduce it on a vanilla 2.2.7 system. The command line was
hdparm -c 3 -t -d1 -X34 /dev/hda
After a few seconds I got: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
and then nothing. Every key sequence was dead. After two nostalgic minutes contemplating how standard this was under MS-DOS, I reached for the reset switch.
hdparm is 3.3. I think there are newer versions, but I take what Debian gives me. Without the "-X34" it works fine, but I'm new to this, so I was following the suggestions in the man pages. In any case, I guess the crash is not what's meant to happen.
As with Vasilios, I can test any solutions on my crash-and-burn system. Only limit is how much time my wife will let me spend in front of the PC :-(.
Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)int)
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