Re: IDE-problems

[Wilhelm Fitzpatrick <rafial@well.com>]

> There's been a dma_intr status=0x00 message for the hda case as well,
> apparently enabling the multiword DMA will generate a DMA interrupt.
> Please note that the set multiword DMA 2 command succeeded earlier for hdc
> during driver init. Seems the problem is only with this function being
> used from ioctls. 

My understanding of the problem is incomplete, but I'll throw my
information in the pot and say I often see this sort of error during boot,
and sometimes the system recovers and continues, and othertimes it locks
up before the login prompt appears and I have to reboot and try
again.  Also, the problem seems to happen more often with the 2.2.17pre5
kernel I got out of frozen than the old 2.2.15pre? kernel that was
originally packaged in frozen...

-raf