Re: hda: error: DMA in progress..

[Stelian Pop]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 04:57:24PM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote:

> Martin, I have the same problem on my Sony Vaio C1VE, 
> Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01), HITACHI_DK23AA-12 disk.
> 
> It doesn't even boot, the "DMA in progress error..." appears just
> after having mounted the root partition. 2.5.23 worked on this laptop.

Ok, after poking around the "waiting_for_dma" changes, I found that
the attached patch is solving all my problems, my laptop works again.

BIG FAT WARNING: I have a very limited knowledge in the ide driver
internals, the attached patch could destroy all your data!

Please advice.

Stelian.

===== include/linux/ide.h 1.90 vs edited =====
--- 1.90/include/linux/ide.h	Thu Jun 20 13:35:15 2002
+++ edited/include/linux/ide.h	Mon Jun 24 10:17:00 2002
@@ -766,10 +766,12 @@
  */
 static inline ide_startstop_t udma_init(struct ata_device *drive, struct request *rq)
 {
-	int ret = drive->channel->udma_init(drive, rq);
-	if (ret == ide_started)
-		set_bit(IDE_DMA, drive->channel->active);
-
+	int ret;
+	
+	set_bit(IDE_DMA, drive->channel->active);
+	ret = drive->channel->udma_init(drive, rq);
+	if (ret != ide_started)
+		clear_bit(IDE_DMA, drive->channel->active);
 	return ret;
 }
 
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