> So what do you suggest? (I could buy an alternate ide controller,
> and hope that goes away, or just buy a different hard drive. But
> that's beside the point).
The DMA timeout itself could be all sorts of things - crap driver, crap
hardware, PCI bus contention, noise, problem disk, phase of the moon.
> I can prepare a patch, but only with a lot of guidance. I can test
> & debug, I'm highly motivated just right now ...
If you've got a nice repeatable problem please try using the libata
driver. That handles the error paths differently and doesn't try a FIFO
drain which might matter in this case I guess.
Alan
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