2.4.19-pre10 + Promise ATA100 tx2 ver 2.20
Quoted 7 lines · Jussi Laako
No matter which one of the
installations is booted, the system will lock up if the VIA controller is in use at the same time as the PDC. However, system seems to be stable (short test priod though) if only the PDC controller is in use. (I left the old drives attached to the VIA controller unmounted.)Does this problem sound similar to yours?
seems similar to my problem. If I connect large (75-120G) disks on both PDC channels and run /sbin/badblocks in parallel (dd might do, too) I get a kernel panic/freeze. I get it even with no disk on the onboard controller. I can reproduce this on two different VIA boards with both, a PDC20267 and a PDC20262, too. On a board with Ali chiset, however no error occured during a short (5 minutes) test. On a board with an Intel
chipset I got some "DMA timeout" after 3 hours, but may be this was an unrelated problem.
Dieter.