Re: eepro100 (PCI ID 82820) lockups/failure

[Joseph Cheek]

i applied the usleep(1) patch and i still get lockups on 2.4.7-ac5.  not
sure how i could get you the info you need, but i would certainly be
willing to help.

my machine locks hard before anything gets to syslog.

thanks!

joe

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On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Andrey Savochkin wrote:

> Someone who experiences such timeouts needs to figure out how much time it
> really can take before a command is accepted.
> Some time ago the timeout was increased by the factor of 10, and now the
> current timeout looks being insufficient.
> It might be a problem with the time of specific commands or specific chip
> revisions.
> Or some hardware is too clever and somehow optimizes those repeated read
> operations, so that they no longer take a fixed number of bus cycles.
> 
> In short, that patch isn't a real solution.
> If someone provides me with the information which commands times-out and how
> much time they really need, we could have a real solution.