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- Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
- Path: sparky!uunet!sae!hyperion!malay
- From: malay@sae.com (Bob Malay)
- Subject: Re: ST Minix & DMA Interrupts
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.160350.11572@sae.com>
- Sender: news@sae.com
- Reply-To: malay@sae.com
- Organization: Template Software
- References: <flebbe.716052337@wega>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:03:50 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article 716052337@wega, flebbe@wega.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de (Olaf Flebbe) writes:
- >malay@sae.com (Bob Malay) writes:
- >
- >
- >>I keep getting these very annoying "DMA Interrupt Discarded" messages
- >> which also hangs the system.
- >
- >>System: 4MB 1040STe, TOS2.06, ICD HostAdapter+, Quantum 105MB, Minix 1.5.10.0
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >>Whats going on????
- >The Quantum drive is recalibrating and can not receive data from the
- >ST. You can actually hear the recalibratings: "ZickZack".
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- Yes, you are correct - prior to the error message I can hear the drive making a
- noise similar to the one you described.
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- >
- >>Is there a fix, patch ??
- >Yes: fix the file kernel/stwini.c
- >You will find a "#define HDC_POLL" change it to
- > #define HDC_POLL 32000
- >
- >build a new kernel and be happy.
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- Thanks for the fix - and it certainly will make me happy!
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- Question: what does HDC_DELAY do (in stwini.c)???
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- >
- >Greetings
- > Olaf
- >--
- > Olaf Flebbe, Theoretische Astrophysik Tuebingen
- > Internet: flebbe@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
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