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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 23:01:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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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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