From: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 DMA question
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:32:22 +0000
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On Monday 27 February 2006 13:32, Mark Lord wrote:
> Nick Warne wrote:
> > As a user we know if DMA is OK on a ide device, right?  Then let user
> > have option to set it permanent, else carry on as the code does now when
> > idex needs a reset.
>
> Does "hdparm -K1 /dev/hda" solve the problem?  That's what that option was
> for originally, but I don't know if the IDE driver still uses it correctly.

Strangely, I was reading up on this at work today, and it does indeed look 
like what is required (although my man page refers to -k for options -dmu ) - 
so I set both -k1 -K1 options.

Now to wait and see the drive produce the error.

Thanks for help Mark,

Nick
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