I got these messages in 2.4.4-ac5, and now in 2.4.4-ac6, when I expire my news-spool. In 2.4.4, there's no problem expring my newsspool and running 2 bonnie's in the background. May 11 00:47:25 middle kernel: hdg: timeout waiting for DMA May 11 00:47:25 middle kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 May 11 00:47:25 middle kernel: hdg: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } May 11 00:56:20 middle kernel: hdg: timeout waiting for DMA May 11 00:56:20 middle kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 May 11 00:56:20 middle kernel: hdg: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } May 11 00:56:30 middle kernel: hdg: timeout waiting for DMA May 11 00:56:30 middle kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 May 11 00:56:30 middle kernel: hdg: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Info from 2.4.4: block: queued sectors max/low 340506kB/209434kB, 1024 slots per queue Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio HPT370: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 70 HPT370: chipset revision 3 HPT370: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xec08-0xec0f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio hda: Maxtor 33073H3, ATA DISK drive hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive hdg: IBM-DJNA-372200, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide2 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xe002 on irq 10 ide3 at 0xe400-0xe407,0xe802 on irq 10 hda: 60032448 sectors (30737 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3736/255/63, UDMA(100) hde: 90069840 sectors (46116 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=89355/16/63, UDMA(100) hdg: 44150400 sectors (22605 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=43800/16/63, UDMA(33) Partition check: hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 > hda4 hde: [PTBL] [5606/255/63] hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4 hdg: hdg1 hdg2 hdg3 hdg4 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M HPT370 Chipset. --------------- Primary Channel ---------------- Secondary Channel ------------- enabled enabled --------------- drive0 --------- drive1 -------- drive0 ---------- drive1 ------ DMA enabled: yes no yes no UDMA DMA PIO Good luck, Jurriaan -- BOFH excuse #24: network packets travelling uphill (use a carrier pigeon) GNU/Linux 2.4.4 SMP/ReiserFS 2x1402 bogomips load av: 0.42 0.10 0.03 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/