Bug#363331: installation-reports

[Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:21:17PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Saturday 29 April 2006 19:34, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> 
> Both this:
> >  hda: hda1 hda4 < hda5<4>ata1: PIO error
> > ata1: dev 1 cfg 49:0000 82:0000 83:0000 84:0000 85:0000 86:0000 87:0000
> > 88:0000
> 
> and this:
> > ata1: no dma 
> 
> does not look good.

No, it does bother me a bit - although as yet I havn't observed any
unpleasant side effects. 

I tried changing the content of /etc/modprobe.d/libata to:
	options libata atapi_enabled=0
to see if this was a result of the CD being activated (vs something
else different in my build) but the CD continued to be detected..

This
  scsi0 : ata_piix
   hda1 hda4 <<4>ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x14B7
  ata2: disabling port
  scsi1 : ata_piix
    Vendor: MATSHITA  Model: DVD-RAM UJ-832S   Rev: 1.01
    Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 05
   hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13 hda14 hda15 >
looks a bit like the hda tranfer failed until initialization of
the CD initialization completed, when the partition list completed.

I can't see anything else to indicate that DMA is not being used:
 fujitsu:/home/digbyt# grep dma /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings
 using_dma               1               0               1               rw

> You may be better of trying the 2.6.16 kernel from unstable.

Can you give me a clue on how to do that? I assume I need to
add entries for unstable to my /etc/apt/sources.list, but
somehow avoid inadvertently mixing testing and unstable packages
in the rest of my system..

Regards,
DigbyT
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