Norman Diamond wrote: > I will try building a kernel without legacy IDE drivers, > but meanwhile here's the latest bug. > > Knoppix 6.0.1 is built on kernel 2.6.28.4. Legacy IDE > drivers still claim /dev/hda and /dev/hdc (the Knoppix CD > being on /dev/hdc). > > In order to view part of a dump if it occurs, I typed the > following boot command: > knoppix 3 lang=en keyboard=jp106 > > When I try to do a TASKFILE WRITE_DMA (LBA28), the process > hangs. No dump. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+Z were ignored. > Ctrl+Alt+F2 switched to a second VT (by the way this no > longer works if Knoppix 6.0.1 is booted to graphical > mode). The second VT responded at first. Then tried to > do a dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=5 | od, and the second VT > hanged too. > > In the third VT, dmesg showed this error message: > hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read method > instead. > > Google found several threads where people are blaming this > error message on audio drivers or wireless LAN drivers. > Some people are saying it was fixed somewhere earlier than > 2.6.28.4. 2.6.28.4 tells me it's not fixed, and the > timing sure doesn't look like audio or wireless LAN. I'm guessing that's a symptom and not a cause, if the IDE driver is causing some kind of partial lockup then that could be messing with the audio driver.. > > I'll try building a kernel without legacy IDE drivers, but > I wonder which kernel version to try. Normally latest is best.. -- 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
