Basically somewhere a patch fouled the state machine.
The expiry tripped just as an interrupt happens to be reported from the
drive.
I will need to look at the series of innerdiffs when I get time.
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi there
>
> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x64
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: dma_intr: bad DMA status (dma_stat=70)
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
>
> I've read a lot of people do suffer from that kind of errors.
> Especially people using VIA IDE chipset.
> When using 2.4.21-pre4-aa1 everthing is ok but when I was using .21-pre7 I had to wait
> a few days before starting to see those errors.
> I've just tried 2.4.21-pre6. Errors still happen and that a lot faster.
> 2.4.21-rc2-ac1 was subjected to that kind of errors too.
>
> A few weeks ago, I read people complaining about similar issues.
> Especially people using Local or IO APIC support on uniprocessors and VIA IDE chipsets.
> I'm using both local and IO APIC on uniprocessors.
>
> Is there any patch or solution ? I heard disabling acpi may help.
>
> .config /proc/pci et /proc/dmesg are attached to this mail.
>
> My two harddrives are subjected to those errors. Using 2.4.21-pre4-aa1 there is no error.
> I'm available to do tests.
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Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group