RE: IDE timeouts 2.4.1

David Balazic (david.balazic@uni-mb.si)
Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:31:27 +0100


> From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
> Date: Fri Feb 02 2001 - 23:50:42 EST
>
> Do not trust the second channel to ATA devices.
> Only ATAPI can live there.
> I watch it all day long eat my second drives.

Is this only for this particular chipset or general ATA issue (hope not) ?

> The OSB4 is not a pretty thing to play with, and I will have the chance to
> fix the CSB5 before it goes final.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Dunlap, Randy wrote:
>
> > I'm also getting a ton of these, along with lots of
> > file corruption. I could handle the timeouts and
> > rebooting every once in awhile if I didn't also have
> > the corruption.
> >
> > Do I have some incorrect IDE parameters?
> >
> > (using 2.4.0, not 2.4.1)
> > dual Pentium III 933 MHz (STL2 board)
> > SAMSUNG 20 GB IDE hard drive
> > ServerWorks chipset
> >
> > details----------------------------------

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