To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: DMA errors with hard disk
VJ wrote:Hi,
I get this error a lot of times, and I have tried looking at google too
without any solution(all I saw were postings of the problem). My System is
Gigabyte 7DXR. Kernel version is 2.6.8-1.521.
Has anybody found any solution to this problem?
Thanks and regards from
VJ
******************************* Result of lspci command
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South]
(rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
[root@dxr root]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System
Controller (rev 13)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP
Bridge
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South]
(rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2
Encoder (rev 01)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
00:10.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20265 (rev
02)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF/SG AGP
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev
05)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev
05)
*************************** Part of /var/log/messages kernel: hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60 kernel: hdb: DMA timeout retry kernel: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } kernel: hda: DMA disabled kernel: hda: drive not ready for command kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80 kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x34 { DeviceFault SeekComplete CorrectedError } kernel: hdb: no DRQ after issuing WRITE kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80 kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x34 { DeviceFault SeekComplete CorrectedError }
Have had this happen with some crappy hard drives I've run into over the years. Usually accompanies some loud clicking. Chances are you are trying to run in a DMA mode that the drive doesnt support, eg UDMA(100) instead of UDMA(66) or the like. Check your BIOS, if you have configured your hard drives by hand you may have have a wrong setting. Consider either letting your BIOS autodetect or passing values to the kernel at boot time. If this doesn't work I would like to see your dmesg output, specifically where the kernel detects your drives and ide controller(s). -- Jacob
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Hi Jacob,
Thanks for reply. Hard disks are
hda : ST340016A
hdh : ST3160023A (was hdb)
and they are pretty new. Today morning I moved hdb (the second hard disk to prmise controller(i had it disabled first, but had to enable it today using a jumper on the mobo. Now hdb is hdh)
Partial output of dmesg is at the end
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RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: ST340016A, ATA DISK drive
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: LG DVD-ROM DRD-8120B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: LG CD-RW CED-8081B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
PDC20265: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:10.0
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PDC20265: chipset revision 2
PDC20265: 100% native mode on irq 11
PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:DMA
hdh: ST3160023A, ATA DISK drive
ide3 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xdc02 on irq 11
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdh: max request size: 128KiB
hdh: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdh: hdh1 hdh2 hdh3 hdh4
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
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