Re: k3b causing system freeze/panic

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Butler
On 08/01/10 23:03, I wrote: > Sadly, I still haven't been able to identify where the buffer address in > the request structure is one of: left unset, gets lost or corrupted :-( > > Happens with k3b-kde4 too. I am assuming that this is as a consequence > of the ATA_CAM code-path. I don't recall eve

Re: k3b causing system freeze/panic

2010-08-01 Thread Michael Butler
On 07/28/10 04:27, Andriy Gapon wrote: > You do realize that ATA_CAM just (well, mostly) introduces a wrapper around > the > "now aging ATA driver" ? > No magic pixie dust to fix the bugs in it, but perhaps more ways to expose > them. Sadly, I still haven't been able to identify where the buffe

Re: k3b causing system freeze/panic

2010-07-29 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Szilveszter Adam writes: > Also, if I remember correctly, for people with a bit more recent > controllers ATA_CAM offers other advantages, but those do not affect > me. So, for me ATA_CAM is just a better version of the ata(4) > driver... It's the exact same driver, but plugged into CAM. DES --

Re: k3b causing system freeze/panic

2010-07-28 Thread Szilveszter Adam
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 01:42:30PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Sorry, I misparsed ATA_CAM as ahci. Why on earth would anyone want to > use ATA_CAM these days? Well, I am not sure if you really meant ATA_CAM and not ATAPICAM? But in case you meant it, for people who do not use SATA-capabl

Re: k3b causing system freeze/panic

2010-07-28 Thread Alexander Motin
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: >> Andriy Gapon writes: >>> Michael Butler writes: I have a custom kernel for my laptop which uses ATA_CAM rather than the now aging ATA driver .. >>> You do realize that ATA_CAM just (well, mostly) introduces a wrapper >>> aroun

Re: k3b causing system freeze/panic

2010-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: > Andriy Gapon writes: > > Michael Butler writes: > > > I have a custom kernel for my laptop which uses ATA_CAM rather than > > > the now aging ATA driver .. > > You do realize that ATA_CAM just (well, mostly) introduces a wrapper > > around the "now aging ATA driver"

Re: k3b causing system freeze/panic

2010-07-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Andriy Gapon writes: > Michael Butler writes: > > I have a custom kernel for my laptop which uses ATA_CAM rather than > > the now aging ATA driver .. > You do realize that ATA_CAM just (well, mostly) introduces a wrapper > around the "now aging ATA driver" ? Only for legacy drives, but since Mic

Re: k3b causing system freeze/panic

2010-07-28 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 28/07/2010 06:01 Michael Butler said the following: > I have a custom kernel for my laptop which uses ATA_CAM rather than the > now aging ATA driver .. You do realize that ATA_CAM just (well, mostly) introduces a wrapper around the "now aging ATA driver" ? No magic pixie dust to fix the bugs in

k3b causing system freeze/panic

2010-07-27 Thread Michael Butler
I have a custom kernel for my laptop which uses ATA_CAM rather than the now aging ATA driver .. In the case that the kernel compilation options KDB and DDB are enabled, k3b will simply freeze. Without them, I managed to catch this panic: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 1; a