[ale] ide reset

[Scott Nolde]

Peter,

I compiled a new 2.4.1 kernel last night and the irq reset problem seems
to have away.  I compiled in a few different options concerning DMA and
PCI bus mastering.

- Scott

Peter Ekstrom wrote:
> 
> I'd be interested to hear about this as well.
> 
> I've had the same problem with 3 different drives in two different
> machines.  All three of my drives were Maxtor drives of varying
> sizes (2.5GB, 8GB and 10GB).  In two cases I had Linux running on
> them and in the third case (the 10GB drive) I had Windows 98SE.
> 
> I ended up with a corrupt ext2 filesystem on the 8GB drive and a
> bunch of blue-screens on the 10GB drive in Win98SE when the drive
> took too long to reset.
> 
> In all cases I noticed that the drive made a click noise at which
> point the drive light was on steady.  Several seconds later the
> drive made another click noise just like the first one and the
> light went out.  The interval between the two clicks would vary
> between 5-12 seconds if I remember correctly.
> 
> My solution so far has been to replace the drives with Western
> Digital drives...  Haven't had that problem since...
> 
> //Peter

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