Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:01:58 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: part fix the highpoint timing/overclock bug |
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On 20 Feb 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 04:18, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > That will deadlock it into a death spiral beause PIO is not setup either, > > but I like the warning! > > Should be ok. It'll fail to allow DMA modes so will retune the drive unless > Im missing something >
Recent discoveries showed if one does not tune the basics for pio, it goes into a lost interrupt spin. It will run, but each IO suffers 4/5 interrupts lost. It can take up to 4 hours to boot in some cases.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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