----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:14
PM
Subject: RE: HDD DMA error and system
hangs - FC3.
VJ, this is not the first time similar inquiries have
appeared here, and I encountered the same problem with a completely different
hardware setup. I saw this happening on a SCSI raid w/caching
controller. I discovered a work around by disabling cache writes to
filesystem in the mount. Some of the newer ide/sata drives are coming
with large caches (~8meg), so it makes me wonder about a possible correlation
there. Maybe completely off target - just FYI...
Paul
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 2:33
PM
Subject: HDD DMA error and system hangs
- FC3.
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
Apologies. I sent MIME mail by
mistake.
VJ
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Hi Paul,
Thanks for the reply. Could
you please tell me how to disable cache write in mount option? I tried man
mount but could not find it.
Regards from
VJ
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