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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:09:56 +0400
From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
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Subject: Re: problem with pata_hpt37x ...
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Alan wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:01:45 +0100
> Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> 
>> if you are interested in investigating this, please
>> let me know what kind of data you would like to see
>> and/or what kind of tests would be appreciated.
> 
> I reviewed the 374 code a bit further to see what might be causing this
> and found the slave channel end of DMA handling was using the wrong port
> I think.

This now passes all my stress tests Alan. No more "Interrupt disabled" or dmesg storms.
I put the HPT Rocketraid 1540 (HPT374) back in a box and connected 4 200GB ata drives to it using 
SATA-PATA bridgeboards as before. It looks to be rock solid now.

Brad
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