Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > You really ought to rename this parameter to pcibus. Even though it doesn't > > > do justice to the VLB bus, the potential for user error is much smaller. > > > > Until today you had a vaild point! > >

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-06 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > You really ought to rename this parameter to pcibus. Even though it doesn't > > do justice to the VLB bus, the potential for user error is much smaller. > > Until today you had a vaild point! > > Promise Ultra100TX2 (20268 chipset). > > This is a 66

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 21:30:24 -0700, Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You killed yourself > > > > You do not have a host that will do idebus=66 > > You really ought to rename this parameter to pcibus. Even though it doesn't > do j

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-06 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 21:30:24 -0700, Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You killed yourself > > You do not have a host that will do idebus=66 You really ought to rename this parameter to pcibus. Even though it doesn't do justice to the VLB bus, the potential for user error is much

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
You killed yourself You do not have a host that will do idebus=66 You have now dived you clock timing in half. You should expect to have a driver time out before the device is completed. -- Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development ASL Kernel Development -

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-05 Thread Alessandro Suardi
Sorry for the null message, fingers slipped :( Alan Cox wrote: > > > ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 > > is about the most ominous message one can receive from the IDE driver: > > > > 1. it's not in English, so it doesn't tell you jack > > It tells you the chipset d

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-05 Thread Alessandro Suardi
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Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-04 Thread Alan Cox
> ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14 > is about the most ominous message one can receive from the IDE driver: > > 1. it's not in English, so it doesn't tell you jack It tells you the chipset doesnt support an IDE dma timeout handling function (ie all it can do is reset

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-04 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:00:29 +0100 (BST), Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Been running this configuration over more than 2 years now without such >> major problems. >> Could this be the cause? > > Quite possibly. There are reasons we ignore bug reports from overclockers Perhaps. But, ide

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-04 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Frank Cornelis wrote: > Hey, > > After I did put in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks > USE_DMA=1 > my system did crash very badly, I guess after my hard disks did wake up [SNIPPED...] > > BTW: my motherboard runs at 112 Mhz, overclocked, was 100 Mhz. > Been running this con

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-04 Thread Brian Gerst
Frank Cornelis wrote: > > Hey, > > After I did put in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks > USE_DMA=1 > my system did crash very badly, I guess after my hard disks did wake up > again. For I while I though I'd lose some sectors because of this, I had > to re-install my RedHat 7.0, had a not so prod

Re: linux 2.4.3 crashed my hard disk

2001-04-04 Thread Alan Cox
> After I did put in /etc/sysconfig/harddisks > USE_DMA=1 > my system did crash very badly, I guess after my hard disks did wake up So you forced DMA on > BTW: my motherboard runs at 112 Mhz, overclocked, was 100 Mhz. and ran overclocked > Been running this configuration over more than