[Soekris] harddisk errors with a 4801 under linux

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20060720114044.GA5614 at localhost.localdomain>, Albert Dengg writes:

>anyhow wenn doing some disk activity i always get the following error on
>the serial console before the soekris locks up:
> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x01
> hda: DMA timeout error
> ide_dma_end dma_stat=1 err=1 newerr=0

Start by disabling DMA access to the disk in your kernel.

I have no idea how that is done in Linux.

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