I have noticed a lot of these errors in my /var/log/messages
Jul 18 01:00:10 ogri kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Jul 18 01:00:10 ogri kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
DriveStatusError
BadCRC }
Iam currently using kernel 2.4.5-10 (but i have always had them in even
with the standard kernel and the 2.4.3-12 as well)
My motherboard is the Abit KT7 (no raid and no onboard audio) with a 1.3
athlon Thunderbird running on 100Mhz FSB with 512 MB Ram.
hda: Samsung ST310212A 20GB (ata33 i think).
I ve disabled dma in the bios to see if it helps, also tried another
cable and another hdd and still the same errors.
I know the hdd is not faulty, from what i understand dma is enabled by
default in the kernel.
Basically what do these errors mean? ( i have found several different
answers on various mailing list posted from other people, but iam still
unsure as to why this is happening)
and secondly how could i stop them happening and what would be the
cause.
As i don't know where exactly to look ive cut+pasted some of my outputs
from /proc and /var/log/messages to see if it would help anyone..
This is the output of 'car /proc/ide/via:
-----------------------------------------------
----------VIA BusMastering IDE Configuration----------------
Driver Version: 3.23
South Bridge: VIA vt82c686a
Revision: ISA 0x22 IDE 0x10
Highest DMA rate: UDMA66
BM-DMA base: 0xd000
PCI clock: 33MHz
Master Read Cycle IRDY: 0ws
Master Write Cycle IRDY: 0ws
BM IDE Status Register Read Retry: yes
Max DRDY Pulse Width: No limit
-----------------------Primary IDE-------Secondary IDE------
Read DMA FIFO flush: yes yes
End Sector FIFO flush: no no
Prefetch Buffer: no no
Post Write Buffer: no no
Enabled: yes yes
Simplex only: no no
Cable Type: 40w 40w
-------------------drive0----drive1----drive2----drive3-----
Transfer Mode: UDMA PIO PIO DMA
Address Setup: 30ns 120ns 120ns 30ns
Cmd Active: 90ns 90ns 90ns 90ns
Cmd Recovery: 30ns 30ns 30ns 30ns
Data Active: 90ns 330ns 330ns 90ns
Data Recovery: 30ns 270ns 270ns 30ns
Cycle Time: 60ns 600ns 600ns 120ns
Transfer Rate: 33.0MB/s 3.3MB/s 3.3MB/s 16.5MB/s
-----------------------------------------------
Also the output of 'cat/proc/ide/hda/settings':
-----------------------------------------------
name value min max mode
---- ----- --- --- ----
bios_cyl 1245 0 65535 rw
bios_head 255 0 255 rw
bios_sect 63 0 63 rw
breada_readahead 4 0 127 rw
bswap 0 0 1 r
current_speed 66 0 69 rw
failures 0 0 65535 rw
file_readahead 0 0 2097151 rw
ide_scsi 0 0 1 rw
init_speed 12 0 69 rw
io_32bit 0 0 3 rw
keepsettings 0 0 1 rw
lun 0 0 7 rw
max_failures 1 0 65535 rw
max_kb_per_request 127 1 127 rw
multcount 0 0 16 rw
nice1 1 0 1 rw
nowerr 0 0 1 rw
number 0 0 3 rw
pio_mode write-only 0 255 w
slow 0 0 1 rw
unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw
using_dma 1 0 1 rw
-----------------------------------------------
and (again) thisa is part of the output from 'dmesg':
-----------------------------------------------
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
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 vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
hda: ST310212A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: CREATIVE CD5233E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 20005650 sectors (10243 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=1245/255/63,
UDMA(33)
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
-----------------------------------------------
Thanks in advance
Mark
--
----
A penguin a day keeps the fatal exceptions away...
Registered Linux User: 208939
Licq: 119422259
_______________________________________________
Seawolf-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
