David wrote:
On 4 Oct 2002, Peter L. Hurd wrote:I'm using a Gigabyte 7VRX (same chipset as the Asus, IIRC) with an Athlon 1800+, and i'm experiencing the same problems with IDE errors that Peter is (see below).
I've seen some mention of this in this list already, and I'd like to add
my 2c.
The kernel in 8.0 does not play well with the southbridge vt8233a
chipset.
It works fine on my A7V333.
...It still doesn't seem to be right. Here's what happens on my system on IDE initialization:
Patch available at:The VIA driver in the Psyche kernel is newer than the version this patch contains.
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/qralston/dev/
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89
PCI: Hardcoded IRQ 14 for device 00:11.1
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 vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive
hdc: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive
hdd: LITEON DVD-ROM LTD163D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=9732/255/63, UDMA(133)
hdc: 156355584 sectors (80054 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=155114/16/63, UDMA(133)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
hdc:hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide1: reset: success
The dma_intr errors and the ide reset repeat several times during the boot. After it's booted, all seems well (except that the DVD drive on hdd drags the UDMA133 HD on hdc down to 24 Mb/s instead of 40 Mb/s like hda).
My uptime says:Machines running the unpatched 2.4.18-14 kernel start segfaulting after
24-48hrs of uptime.
This sounds like a problem with your hardware.
12:43pm up 16:22, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.01
We'll see what happens in a day or two. :-) I've seen no signs of anything looking like motherboard instability yet, but i've been rebooting fairly regularly back to Windows, since i can't get sound working & thus can't play DVDs.
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Paul
http://paulgear.webhop.net
