[wplug] DMA

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:25:11PM -0500, Henry Umansky wrote:
> <snip>
> hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: command error: error=0x50
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 1448
> hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: command error: error=0x50
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 1452
> hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: command error: error=0x50
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 1220
> </snip>
> 
> This goes on for a while, a lot longer than my terminal buffer can 
> handle, so I assume it does that through every sector on my DVD drive.

You might also double-check the jumper setting on the drive.  I had a
CD drive behave similarly and it turned out that the jumper was not
actually making contact (I was surprised that it still "mostly worked").

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u