Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IDE wierdness | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 20 Aug 2003 16:40:49 +0100 |
| |
On Mer, 2003-08-20 at 16:09, Larry McVoy wrote: > > It's clear to me that I don't want to use this drive but I'm wondering if > there is any interest in debugging the lock up. I've only done it on > 2.4.18 as shipped by redhat but I could try 2.6 or whatever you like. > > If the concensus is that it is OK that bad hardware locks you up then I'll > toss the drive and move on.
Some PIO transfers are regulated by the drive and the drive can lock the bus forever. Newer chipsets like the SI680/3112 support watchdog deadlock breakers for this but we don't really support them right now.
Getting different data off a failing drive is unusual because the blocks are ECC'd extensively (well more than ECC'd) and have checks, could be the RAM/CPU going I guess.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |