DMA TIMEOUT

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Anish Mistry wrote:

>On Thursday 13 April 2006 07:47, Wil Hatfield wrote:
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>>>I had a similar situation under 6.0. My secondary drive would
>>>throw DMA read
>>>errors at bootup, adding several minutes to the boot process, so
>>>I ran it in
>>>PIO mode. The upgrade to 6.1 solved it, both drives work fine as
>>>DMA now.
>>>      
>>>
>>Looks like the DMA errors are back in 6.1-RC with ATA or at least
>>similar DMA errors. The new one froze my machine with an error like
>>"Error while performing DMA_WRITE command". A new twist to the
>>WRITE_DMA Timeouts of 5.4. I am starting to think that they aren't
>>going to get the ATA issues all worked out anytime soon so they are
>>changing the errors. ;-)
>>
>>And of course no automatic reboot on panic.
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>>
>Do you have a backtrace?
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>
Will such a backtrace actually help resolve the no reboot problem?  Or 
will it just provide information about the panic?

--Alex