Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751352AbWJMQpu (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:45:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751351AbWJMQpo (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:45:44 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:5802 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751352AbWJMQpT (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:45:19 -0400 Subject: Re: Hardware bug or kernel bug? From: Alan Cox To: David Johnson Cc: Jarek Poplawski , Linux Kernel , netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200610131724.40631.dj@david-web.co.uk> References: <20061013085605.GA1690@ff.dom.local> <200610131256.54546.dj@david-web.co.uk> <20061013130648.GC1690@ff.dom.local> <200610131724.40631.dj@david-web.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:11:51 +0100 Message-Id: <1160759511.25218.65.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 661 Lines: 14 Ar Gwe, 2006-10-13 am 17:24 +0100, ysgrifennodd David Johnson: > IDE controller, then continuing. Could the same thing be happening in Linux? > If Linux can't talk to the IDE controller when trying to write to disk, how > does it handle that? It will timeout and then retry the command. It's not the most ideal situation to end up in but I'd expect to see a DMA timeout and a retry or two in the log not a crash. - 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/