Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

[Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>]

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for my IDE
> disks.
> 
> I get mesages like:
>   hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
>   ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func. only: 14
>   hdc: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady, SeekComplete, DataRequest }
>   hdc: drive not ready for command
> 
> 
> The linux-kernel mailing list archives seem to indicate that there
> is a patch for a kernel bug that can cause disk corruption.
> 
> Does anybody know which 2.4.x kernel patches are supposed to fix that?
> 
> Or is the problem something else?

If you have a VIA chipset try making sure that VIA chipset support is
included in the kernel.

Pigeon