HDD DMA error and system hangs - FC3.

[Rakesh Patel]

VJ, I also have an ST3160023A and had some DMA errors/hangs with my 
IWill MPX2
(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