Re: DMA errors with hard disk

From: VJ (vj_at_vijaygill.homelinux.net)
Date: 10/28/04

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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:24:19 +0100

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    From: "Jacob L E Blain Christen" <dweomer+fedora@entheal.com>
    To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    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).
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    > 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

    *******************************************************
    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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