On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 02:26, Mark Susol|Ultimate Creative Media wrote:
> I'm having difficulties keeping a server running under FC1 with a SiS5515
> chipset and 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl kerenl from FC1 distro CDs. The main problem
> is with my secondary drive giving me errors like:
>
> hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x41
> dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x40
> hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
> hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
> hdb: (__ide_dma_test_irq) called while not waiting
> hda: lost interrupt
> last message repeated 6 times
> hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> ide0: reset: success
>
>
> Which then under peak usage just hangs the server and eventually only a hard
> boot will bring it around.
>
Mark,
A left field thought:
I saw similar messages from a DVD drive trying to use DMA when I was not
using an 80 conductor cable. Replacing the cable with an 80 conductor
one corrected the problem.
Bob...
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