[not yet :-( fixed] Re: hangs on Nforce2 & kernel 2.6.4

[Dominique Dumont <domi@komarr.grenoble.hp.com>]

Pim Bliek <bliekp@pingwings.nl> writes:

> But, the suggestion by Dominique Dumont already proved to be the solution! 
> Changing the default udma5 to 3 with hdparm resolved the issue. I tested with 
> moving some really big files (300 M) from a VFAT partition to ext3 and vice 
> versa. It crashed on this before, but not anymore.

Sorry to spoil your fun, but I've tried debian's kernel 2.6.5 and it
hangs with udma3. Even a umda2 setting has hanged my machine after 2
hours.

For now I'm back to 2.4.25 to get a working machine.

On the other hand, it looks like kernel people are making some
progress:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203

Some other workaround (and patches) are suggested.


Cheers

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dominique.dumont@hp.com