On Sun, 20 May 2001, Civileme wrote:
% Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 20:01:57 -0700
% From: Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
% To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
%
% On Sunday 20 May 2001 10:37, you wrote:
% > The present system has operated without any changes to the hardware
% > with Win9.x, RH5.2, and LM7.0. This problem only started when I
% > upgraded to LM8.0 and still no hardware changes have been made.
% >
% > I use the 420Mb drive as a swap disk, connected along with the
% > CD-ROM to the secondary port. I can't bring myself to throw the
% > 420Mb drive out.
% >
% > The following errors occur during boot-up:
% >
% > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
% > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
% > idebus=xx
% > VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
% > VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
% > VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
% > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
% > idebus=xx
% > VP_IDE: VIA vt82c586a (rev 27) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci00:07.1
% > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6000-0x6007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
% > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6008-0x600f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
% > ide6: Creative SB32 PnP IDE interface
% > hdb: WDC AC33100H, ATA DISK drive
% > hdc: Conner Peripherals 420MB - CFS420A, ATA DISK drive
% > hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
% > hdd: CD-ROM 32X/AKU, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
% > hdd: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffff8)
% > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
% > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
% > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
% > hda: 16408224 sectors (8401 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=1021/255/63,
% > UDMA(33)
% > hdb: 6185088 sectors (3167 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=767/128/63, DMA
% > hdc: 832608 sectors (426 MB) w/64KiB Cache, CHS=826/16/63, DMA
% > hdd: lost interrupt
% > hdd: lost interrupt
% > hdd: lost interrupt
% > hdd: lost interrupt
% > hdd: lost interrupt
% > hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
% > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
% > Partition check:
% > hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
% > hdb: hdb1 hdb2
% > hdc:hdc: lost interrupt
% > hdc: lost interrupt
% > hdc: lost interrupt
% > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
% > ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
% > hdc: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
% > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
% > ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
% > hdc: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
% > hdc: lost interrupt
% > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
% > ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
% > hdc: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
% > hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
% > ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
% > hdc: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
% > hdc: DMA disabled
% > hdd: DMA disabled
% > ide1: reset: success
% > hdc: lost interrupt
% > hdc: lost interrupt
% > hdc: lost interrupt
% > hdc: lost interrupt
% > hdc1 hdc2 <hdc: lost interrupt
% > hdc: lost interrupt
% > hdc5 >
% > hdc: lost interrupt
% > hdc: lost interrupt
% >
% > Why does this happen and how can it be resolved?
%
% You are looking at timing chatter under tightened timing requirements in
% kernel 2.4. The solution is to relocate one of the drives to another channel
% or simply throw it away. These timing requirements are necessary to avoid
% data corruption in UDMA4 and 5 setups.
As in first or secondary connector on the controller card?
% A second item is that VIA chipsets are buggy, performing in logic race
% fashion for IDE transfers and causing MASSIVE CORRUPTION for several hundred
% megabyte cross-channel transfers under not only kernel 2.4 but also win2K and
% ME. VIA has been working with board manufacturers to update the BIOS to
% rearrange PCI resources. You may want to give the mainboard the most recent
% BIOS the manufacturer has.
As in a EEPROM update or actually switch in a new chip?
How do I contact VIA? I tried to get results from PCChips (the
maker of my mainboard), but they don't respond whatsoever. Although,
I do have some information that I gathered and need some help sorting
it out.
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