Re: [BUG?] SIS IDE DMA errors

From: Michael Frank
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 13:26:20 EST


On Saturday 27 September 2003 01:27, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Actually, it's me who wrote the 961 and 963 support. It works fine for
> > most people. Did you check you cabling?
>
> I'm dealing with a laptop, but I suppose I could wiggle the cables a
> bit. I still doubt it's a cable problem, since reading works
> flawlessly.

And the cables are nicely short...

>
> It appears to me that during heavy IO load, some DMA interrupts get
> lost, for some reason.

Could you cat /proc/interrupts to see if the IDE interrupt is shared
by chance?

Regards
Michael


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