PROBLEM: kernel 2.4 pdc202xx and kernel 2.6 pdc202xx_old Broken

joram.agten_at_pandora.be
Date: 04/10/05

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    Date:	Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:12:03 +0200
    
    

    Hello

    please put me in CC

    I'm using a pdc20262 promise utra66 controller to manage 4 HD's, all 30GB
    and I put them in a software /dev/md/0 raid5 configuration

    recently I upgraded my kernel to linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 and also
    linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r5
    and the raid array would go offline with dma timeouts when putting load to
    it

    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen hde: DMA timeout error
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen hde: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady
    SeekComplete DataRequest }
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen ide: failed opcode was: unknown
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen hdh: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x62
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen hdh: DMA timeout error
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen hdh: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady
    SeekComplete DataRequest }
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen ide: failed opcode was: unknown
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen hdg: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen ide: failed opcode was: unknown
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen hdg: DMA disabled
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen PDC202XX: Secondary channel reset.
    Apr 9 23:30:15 vennen PDC202XX: Primary channel reset.

    in the beginning it was only with hde, so I suspected the disk, put it on
    another controller, run a complete diskcheck on it (maxtor dos tool), no
    problems found.
    I attach it to the onboard motherboard controller and put it back in the
    raid array
    but again the raid array would fail, this time another disk.

    If I boot again, and reinitialize the array, so that it starts building
    again, it would fail quite fast
    when not putting any load on the array it would just run fine

    since I had installed the whole system from scratch I didn't know the exact
    version of the previous kernel, so I went back to linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r33,
    an here everything works
    I also remember trying some more recent 2.4 kernel, but I do not recall the
    exact version, there the same problem would manifest.

    after some googling I found this thread: PDC202XX_OLD broken
    http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0412.0/1277.html

    this is almost the exact same behaviour
    but in the thread it does not say if his problem is solved or not
    the suggestion of Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz is present in my 2.6 kernel
    images

    same info is at http://users.pandora.be/gemma.joram/pdc202xx/pdc202xx.html
    I also have sysinfo
    http://users.pandora.be/gemma.joram/pdc202xx/pdc202xx_sysinfo.html
    and log http://users.pandora.be/gemma.joram/pdc202xx/pdc202xx_log.html

    hope this is enough.
    I'l happily try more if you need more info.

    greetings
    joram

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