From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264527AbUESUNX (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 16:13:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264529AbUESUNX (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 16:13:23 -0400 Received: from vogsphere.datenknoten.de ([212.12.48.49]:10635 "EHLO vogsphere.datenknoten.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264527AbUESUM5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 16:12:57 -0400 Subject: Re: Strange DMA-errors... (was: ...and system hang with Promise 20268) From: Sebastian To: samg@seven4sky.com Cc: "Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1648.128.150.143.219.1084992082.squirrel@webmail.seven4sky.com> References: <1078602426.16591.8.camel@vega> <1084987258.4662.4.camel@coruscant.datenknoten.de> <20040519172845.GA26122@darkside.22.kls.lan> <1084990345.4371.5.camel@coruscant.datenknoten.de> <1648.128.150.143.219.1084992082.squirrel@webmail.seven4sky.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1084997577.7392.5.camel@coruscant.datenknoten.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 22:12:57 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Sam, Am Mi, den 19.05.2004 schrieb Sam Gill um 20:41: > Have you tried changing the dma settings > > turn off dma yes, it probably will help as DMA is currently on, however, that is not an option as I need acceptable hard drive performance. As I said, the system worked nicely until that kernel update. If no hardware failure is causing this, it must be a change in the kernel. I will replace the hard disk and see if the problem disappears. Sebastian