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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
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To: Putinas <pilkis@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:43:32 +0200 (CEST)
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Subject: Re: Sil3112 dma errors
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It seems Putinas wrote:
> Hi all,
> recently I upgraded my kernel to the last version  ( Aug 28 now, before was
> runing Aug 5 version ), and I startet to get error like this:
> Aug 27 17:03:23 pilkishome kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA recovered from
> missing interrupt
> Aug 27 17:03:23 pilkishome kernel: ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA soft error (ECC
> corrected)ad4: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA
> status=ff<BUSY,READY,DMA_READY,DSC,DRQ,CORRECTABLE,INDEX,ERROR> error=0...
> <here ends syslogd>
> ad4: WARNING - WRITE_DMA recovery from missing interupt
> ad4: timeout sending command=ca
> ad4: error issuing DMA command
> 
> after where is coming dma timeout, but in the syslog already nothing, system
> becomes unresponsible

Hmm two things: 
what kind of SATA->PATA dongles are you using ?
Do you have any significant traffic on the gigE interface ?

-Søren