Re: [sata_nv] timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x440

["Maarten Maathuis" <madman2003@gmail.com>]

At this point it safe to say that it was a cable related issue.

I swapped it to be sure and i haven't had issues since.

Sincerely,

Maarten Maathuis.

On 9/5/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:06:41 +0200 "Maarten Maathuis" <madman2003@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have not had any issues, i swapped the cable because a while ago i
> > had to check the connection of the drive after the bios failed to
> > detect the drive. That is why i considered that a posibility. Kernel
> > 2.6.18 does not have NCQ support for nvidia chipsets, so that cannot
> > be it.
> >
> > Maarten.
> >
> > On 8/28/07, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Aug 25 2007 15:37, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
> > > >
> > > >A broken cable seems like a realistic possibility, so i swapped it for
> > > >another cable. I will try if that solves the problem.
> > >
> > > Hi, did you have any success/failure, other updates?
> > > I am facing a similar problem (just posted to linux-ide@vger.kernel.org),
> > > but also with 2.6.18, and it does not look like an NCQ or loose cable problem (got a
> > > backplane, and sda is working normal).
> > >
>
> This is a rather comedic email thread, with people top-posting, others
> leaving others off the cc list, Robert's MUA reliably and inexplicably
> mangling both In-Reply-To: and References: thus breaking threading, no
> visible sign of how Jan got involved and no linux-ide cc's.
>
> Enough time has passed for everyone to forget all about this.  So Maarten,
> if you still believe that this is still a kernel bug then please update us
> on its status and provide a full description for linux-ide..  Please use
> reply-to-all for that.
>
> Thanks.
>