Re: DMA Timeouts with 3112 SATA Controller (status == 0x21)

>>while. The following errors were displayed on the console:
>>
>>    hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma_status == 0x21
>>    hde: timeout waiting for DMA

> On Saturday I tried a Seagate 120GiB SATA with my onboard SiI3112 on
> my ASUS P4G8X (with an Intel 7205 chipset). I suppose that David is

I am seeing the same problems with SiI3112 chipset adapters in a 
Supermicro motherboard with 7501 chipset.

I get the DMA timeouts after merely enabling DMA with hdparm- I never even 
get a chance to write anything to disk.

> somehow related to this chipset: I saw the exact same errors as David.
> I also tried several kernels: 2.4.20-ac2, 2.4.20-pre5-ac3, 2.4.20-pre7,
> 2.5.66, 2.4.20-8 from Redhat 9, ... with exactly the same result.

Same here.  I haven't seen DMA working with this chip yet.