HDD DMA error and system hangs - FC3.

[VJ]

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Shaffer Paul 
  To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
  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



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  From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of VJ
  Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 7:35 AM
  To: For users of Fedora Core releases
  Subject: Re: HDD DMA error and system hangs - FC3.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: VJ 
    To: Fedora List 
    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



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    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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