DMA errors with hard disk

VJ vj at vijaygill.homelinux.net
Thu Oct 28 14:02:35 UTC 2004


Hi,
    I get this error a lot of times, and I have tried looking at google too
without any solution(all I saw were postings of the problem). My System is
Gigabyte 7DXR. Kernel version is 2.6.8-1.521.
    Has anybody found any solution to this problem?
Thanks and regards from
VJ

******************************* Result of lspci command
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)
[root at dxr root]# lspci
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. 20265 (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)

*************************** Part of /var/log/messages
kernel: hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x60
kernel: hdb: DMA timeout retry
kernel: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
kernel: hda: DMA disabled
kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x34 { DeviceFault SeekComplete
CorrectedError }
kernel: hdb: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
kernel: hdb: status error: status=0x34 { DeviceFault SeekComplete
CorrectedError }





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