From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
To: dick.streefland@xs4all.nl (Dick Streefland)
Subject: Re: IDE lockup after floppy access
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 00:01:47 +0100
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Does disabling CONFIG_PREEMPT cure the problem?

--bart

On Friday 21 of November 2003 23:41, Dick Streefland wrote:
> After accessing a floppy disk, the kernel blocks on the first harddisk
> access. After a couple of seconds, the following messages appear:
>
>   hda: dma_time_expiry: dma status = 0x61
>   hda: DMA timeout error
>
> I can only reset at this point. This is reproducible. I'm running
> kernel 2.6.0-test9 on an SMP system, but the problem doesn't go away
> when I boot with "nosmp". The kernel was built with CONFIG_PREEMPT.

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