Re: BUGFIX: UDMA-SiS5513 chipset support

Jussi Laako (jlaako@pp.htv.fi)
Sat, 18 Aug 2001 22:46:19 +0300


Frank Neuber wrote:
>
> recently I did an upgrade of my old computer (ASUS SP97-V) to
> the kernel-2.4.7.
>
> Problem:
> My system was crashing even when I load the module ide-disk.o
> Solution:
> Because of the broken hardware (some UDMA problems with an non
> UDMA-Cabel to the drive) the linux kernel hangs during ide_dma_check.
> Even if UDMA is disabeld in the bios, the kernel detect this drive as
> an udma drive. And this is wrong!!
> My solution was simply to comment out the ide_dma_check in ide.c.
> You can find this patch as attachment.

Same mobo here, with -ac kernel. I've never had any problems with any kernel
version (IBM/Maxtor/Seagate HDDs). So I'd suggest faulty HDD, not the
controller nor driver.

- Jussi Laako

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