From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:47:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:46:51 -0400 Received: from cs159246.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.159.246]:60436 "EHLO porkkala.cs159246.pp.htv.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:46:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3B7EC60B.5BFFA6D8@pp.htv.fi> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 22:46:19 +0300 From: Jussi Laako X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frank Neuber CC: andre@linux-ide.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BUGFIX: UDMA-SiS5513 chipset support In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Frank Neuber wrote: > > recently I did an upgrade of my old computer (ASUS SP97-V) to > the kernel-2.4.7. > > Problem: > My system was crashing even when I load the module ide-disk.o > Solution: > Because of the broken hardware (some UDMA problems with an non > UDMA-Cabel to the drive) the linux kernel hangs during ide_dma_check. > Even if UDMA is disabeld in the bios, the kernel detect this drive as > an udma drive. And this is wrong!! > My solution was simply to comment out the ide_dma_check in ide.c. > You can find this patch as attachment. Same mobo here, with -ac kernel. I've never had any problems with any kernel version (IBM/Maxtor/Seagate HDDs). So I'd suggest faulty HDD, not the controller nor driver. - Jussi Laako -- PGP key fingerprint: 161D 6FED 6A92 39E2 EB5B 39DD A4DE 63EB C216 1E4B Available at PGP keyservers