Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2001 10:23:08 -0500 (CDT) | From | Steven Timm <> | Subject | Re: DMA problem (?) w/2.4.6-xfs and ServerWorks OSB4 Chipset |
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------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven C. Timm (630) 840-8525 timm@fnal.gov http://home.fnal.gov/~timm/ Fermilab Computing Division/Operating Systems Support Scientific Computing Support Group--Computing Farms Operations
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > We began with a system with a Seagate system drive (master, ide0), same > > model as in Marvin's post.. IDE cd rom > > as slave on the ide0 bus, and two IBM data drives on the ide1 bus. > ... > > whenever it does happen. It is wrong to think this problem happens > > only with Seagate drives. > > indeed, it seems that the most common trigger for this problem > is simply putting two devices from different vendors on the same channel. > Seagate drives are fairly notorious for not getting along with others. > > it's best to think of IDE as a point-to-point link.
True... however, we were still able to reproduce these problems with only one drive on the bus.
Steve
> > regards, mark hahn. > >
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