WRITE_DMA failures on 5.3 (but NOT on 4.10)

[craig]

>DanGer wrote:
>[...]
>> 
>> 
>> i have the same issue on brand new 200gb ata maxtor hard drive. i had
>> the same issue on 5.2.1, but when i upgraded to 5.3 i decided to turn on
>> ata dma but after 9 days of uptime it froze..no logs, whatever...so i
>> turned ata dma off for now, and i will stay and watch what will happen..
>
>That's very helpful, thank you. The behaviour you describe - machine 
>freezing - is exactly what I have experienced. I'm feeling vaguely 
>optimistic now :-)
>
>> 
>> but there should be some other fix, because i don't want to keep my
>> disc in pio mode :/
>
>Absolutely. But I guess, since I'm not going to try to produce a fix 
>myself, I can't whinge too loudly. A workaround is what I need right now 
>and I hope you've confirmed that this is one.
>
>Peter.


have you had any luck yet? 

i've disabled DMA at a bios level, but it seems to make no discernable
difference. 
and the installation still fails...

have the IDE drivers changed between 4.10 and 5.3? 

much thanks,

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