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Description of problem:
(This might not be the most appropriate forum to announce this bug, but it 
sure would have helped me if this was here when I started looking for the 
problem. Apols in advance.)

Problem when writing data to a IDE/Internal ZIP disk from Redhat 7.1 
(kernel package version 2.4.2-2 or 2.4.9-6) as well as earlier, kernel 
2.2.x based distributions.

When writing any largish (say, over a couple of blocks) files to the zip 
drive, a sync or umount /mnt/zip command will hang, and eventually return 
kernel error messages. Reads, and smaller writes, appear to work fine.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run redhat-7.1 on a Athlon system with the Via 82C686B chipset)
2. Mount a IDE Internal ZIP drive
3. Write some data... at least 1MB
4. Umount the ZIP disk
	

Actual Results:  The write will appear to work, but the umount 
will 'hang'. The kernel will eventually report these errors:

hdd: lost interrupt 
ide-floppy: CoD != 0 in idefloppy_pc_intr 
hdd: ATAPI reset complete 

If a 'sync' is issued instead, 'sync' will hang in a similar fashion, 
including the errors.




Expected Results:  Data written and umount (or sync) returns.

Additional info:

After about 2 days research (which is why I'm so keen to tell SOMEONE 
about this... don't want all that time wasted). I found that there's a 
problem with the Via chipset as used with the Athlon motherboards. I tried 
the above on two motherboards with a Athlon 1200MHz and 1400MHz, with the 
same error; they used the same chipset. EXactly the same equipment, but 
with a intel CPU and motherboard, worked just fine.

Here's an example of a windows user with a similar problem: 
http://guru3d.com/forum/read_msg.php?tid=222&forumid=cpuamd

And a linux user:
http://lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2001/May/1859.html