Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:42:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:42:34 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:64783 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:42:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Update on Promise 100TX2 + Serverworks IDE issues -- 2.2.20 To: jeff@aslab.com (Jeff Nguyen) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 03:58:41 +0100 (BST) Cc: xyzzy@speakeasy.org (Trent Piepho), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), jim@rubylane.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <15b401c1dab4$7bf2c240$6502a8c0@jeff> from "Jeff Nguyen" at Apr 02, 2002 06:08:44 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > devices are the problem maker on OSB4. Unless DMA is disabled, the system > will lock up when accessing the drive. > > If you have UDMA33 ATAPI devices, they work great in OSB4. Except when they don't. There are definite problems with some specific combinations and ones I know are not one offs because we've seen them over an entire render farm for example. The current driver panics and asks people to email me if it spots the UDMA disk corruption about to occur pattern. I get little mail but some - 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/