(dual athlon - similar to your Gigabyte). After changing out numerous parts, I was
able to get it stable by switching power supplies. The drive itself had nothing to do with
it since I was using about 7 different drives, a PCI scsi controller, PCI ATA133 controller,
etc. Went through different memory dimm combinations, single cpu (switching them out),
switched out video card, CD player, cables, etc.
Try going through parts one by one if you have to starting minimally, but I suggest checking
power supply first.
Rakesh Patel.
VJ wrote:
Hi,
My PC suffers from HDD dma problem almost everyday. Motherboard is Gigabyte GA7DXR, HDD is Seagate ST3160023A.
Output of lspci is:
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. PDC20265 (FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100) (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)
This is a portion of my logwatch mail message (i can provied the /var/log/messages as well if needed).
Buffer I/O error on device hdh4, ...: 10 Time(s)
RPC: error 5 connecting to ...: 1 Time(s)
end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector...: 468 Time(s)
hdh: DMA timeout error...: 2 Time(s)
hdh: dma timeout error: status=0x00 { }...: 1 Time(s)
hdh: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { B...: 1 Time(s)
hdh: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStat...: 4 Time(s)
hdh: read_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }...: 4 Time(s)
ide3: reset: master: error (0x00?)...: 2 Time(s)
lost page write due to I/O error on hdh4...: 10 Time(s)
And a lot of following messages
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071628
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071636
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071644
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071652
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071660
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071668
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071676
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071684
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071692
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071700
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071708
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071716
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071724
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071732
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071740
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071748
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071756
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071764
I am running kernel "2.6.9-1.681_FC3" with "noapic nolapic acpi=off".
I ran Segate's own Seagate Tools for surface scan - No problem found.
I ran smartctl -t long /dev/hdh for SMART extensive test. No problems there either.
Any ideas???
Regards from
VJ
