<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pshaffer@spaceimaging.com href="mailto:pshaffer@spaceimaging.com">Shaffer Paul</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=fedora-list@redhat.com href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">For users of Fedora Core releases</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:14 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: HDD DMA error and system hangs - FC3.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414110918-27112004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>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...</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414110918-27112004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=414110918-27112004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Paul</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>VJ<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 27, 2004 7:35 AM<BR><B>To:</B> For users of Fedora Core releases<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: HDD DMA error and system hangs - FC3.<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=vj@vijaygill.homelinux.net href="mailto:vj@vijaygill.homelinux.net">VJ</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=fedora-list@redhat.com href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">Fedora List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 27, 2004 2:33 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> HDD DMA error and system hangs - FC3.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> My PC suffers from HDD dma problem almost everyday. Motherboard is Gigabyte GA7DXR, HDD is Seagate ST3160023A.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Output of lspci is:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 13)<BR>00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge<BR>00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)<BR>00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)<BR>00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)<BR>00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)<BR>00:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)<BR>00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)<BR>00:10.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20265 (FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100) (rev 02)<BR>01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF/SG AGP<BR>02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)<BR>02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is a portion of my logwatch mail message (i can provied the /var/log/messages as well if needed). </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Buffer I/O error on device hdh4, ...: 10 Time(s)<BR> RPC: error 5 connecting to ...: 1 Time(s)<BR> end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector...: 468 Time(s)<BR> hdh: DMA timeout error...: 2 Time(s)<BR> hdh: dma timeout error: status=0x00 { }...: 1 Time(s)<BR> hdh: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { B...: 1 Time(s)<BR> hdh: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStat...: 4 Time(s)<BR> hdh: read_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }...: 4 Time(s)<BR> ide3: reset: master: error (0x00?)...: 2 Time(s)<BR> lost page write due to I/O error on hdh4...: 10 Time(s)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV>And a lot of following messages</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071628 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071636 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071644 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071652 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071660 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071668 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071676 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071684 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071692 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071700 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071708 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071716 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071724 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071732 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071740 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071748 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071756 <BR>Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071764 </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>I am running kernel "2.6.9-1.681_FC3" with "noapic nolapic acpi=off".</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR>I ran Segate's own Seagate Tools for surface scan - No problem found.<BR>I ran smartctl -t long /dev/hdh for SMART extensive test. No problems there either.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any ideas???</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regards from</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>VJ<BR></FONT></DIV> <P> <HR> <P></P> <DIV>-- <BR>fedora-list mailing list<BR>fedora-list@redhat.com<BR>To unsubscribe: <A href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Apologies. I sent MIME mail by mistake.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>VJ</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=3><BR><BR>***************************************************************************<BR>This message is intended only for the use of the Addressee and may<BR>contain information that is PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL.<BR><BR>If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any<BR>dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have<BR>received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the<BR>message and its attachments and notify Space Imaging immediately.<BR>***************************************************************************<BR></FONT> <P> <HR> <P></P> <DIV>-- <BR>fedora-list mailing list<BR>fedora-list@redhat.com<BR>To unsubscribe: <A href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Paul,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> 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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards from</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>VJ</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>