Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761350AbYG3BDi (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:03:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758169AbYG3A67 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:58:59 -0400 Received: from cnrelay03.alcatel-sbell.com.cn ([211.144.215.19]:52817 "EHLO mail.alcatel-sbell.com.cn" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758112AbYG3A65 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:58:57 -0400 Message-ID: <488FBCB4.4080609@alcatel-lucent.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:58:28 +0800 From: gshan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux IDE mailing list Subject: Re: PIIX4: DMA timeout issue References: <488ED837.2060509@alcatel-lucent.com> <488F1C6C.9000002@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <488F1C6C.9000002@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Jul 2008 00:58:18.0459 (UTC) FILETIME=[5ADE7AB0:01C8F1DF] X-imss-version: 2.051 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-scores: Clean:78.33446 C:2 M:3 S:5 R:5 X-imss-settings: Baseline:2 C:1 M:1 S:1 R:1 (0.1500 0.1500) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1302 Lines: 37 Jeff Garzik wrote: > gshan wrote: >> Hello, I sent mails on this issue before, but nobody made response. >> There are 2 types of board for me. The hardware configuration for >> those 2 boards are almost same except that one of them has 100GB >> harddisk, and another type of board has 60GB harddisk. All harddisk >> was access through PIIX4. I found this issue on board with 60GB >> disk, but can't reproduce it on that with 100GB disk. >> >> When I uncompressed a large file (600MB) to a logic partition with 8GB >> size, following errors was report on middle way (5 minutes about from >> start). >> Anybody has ideas? >> >> hdc: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 >> hdc: DMA timeout error >> hdc: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete >> DataRequest } >> ide: failed opcode was: unknown >> hdc: DMA disabled >> ide1: reset: success > > Can you try disabling the IDE driver (CONFIG_IDE) and enabling the > newer libata driver? (CONFIG_ATA) Jeff, thanks a lot for your suggestions. I will try it if possible. > > Jeff > > > > -- 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/