Re: dma problems with Serverworks CSB5 chipset

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2004-08-03 at 19:08, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> ServerWorks OSB4/5 chipsets are known to not work reliably with the Linux
> IDE code. AFAIK its a hardware problem which we dont correctly work around.
> 
> Have you tried disabling DMA?
> 
> Bart and Alan are IDE experts, they can probably give you more useful
> information.

CSB5 is reliable, rock solidly so in my experience. OSB4 was the older
interface with problems. Are these systems SMP, what disks are you using
and in what IDE mode ?

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