> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
