Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 14 Jan 2001 10:48:02 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount, getting closer |
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:45:09AM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:36:13PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > > > > I have now tried the SAMSUNG VG34323A disk with two other controllers at > > > home (Promise ATA100 an VIA vt82c686a rev 0x22, both on an ASUS A7V > > > motherboard), and there are no problems to be found with DMA enabled. > > > Streaming 10 MB/s without glitches. > > > > So the drive *did* work on the vt82c686a in the A7V board? You tested it > > both on the Promise and on the 686a? But doesn't work on the 686a in > > your other board? > > Yes, on both the Promise and on the 686a. But the device revisions are > different. The machine that does NOT work: > > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 1b) > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) > > The machine that works: > > 00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 22) > 00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10) > > The one the works is a 1 GHz Athlon, and the other is an 800 MHz > Pentium-III. > > > > no matter what cable I use. When I get this, the machine does not recover > > > most of the time, and I have to reset or power cycle. > > > > It should be able to recover in a couple (up to 10) minutes ... > > Who waits 10 minutes for a timeout? Can it be lowered?
It's not a 10 minute timeout, it's a shorter timeout retried many times. Not my code, though - this is generic PCI IDE code, and is a huge mess.
> Expect another mail with the data you requested within a couple of hours.
Thanks a lot.
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