Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:16:07 +0200 | From | Florian Hinzmann <> | Subject | problem solved - late answer.. (was: Re: DMA problems w/ PIIX3 IDE, 2.4.20-pre4-ac2) |
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Hello!
Quite some months ago I raised some questions, got some answers and continued working silently until my problem was solved. While digging the archives for yet another IDE problem today I realized I did not send any message to you guys nor to the list afterwards.
Just in case someone is interested or cares still:
1) Sorry for not sending a "problem solved" mail when it was solved 2) My box is running smoothly again. It was neither a kernel issue nor a hardware problem with the disks. Different kernel versions did behave differently, but the cause of it all seems to be a broken CPU (or broken jumper settings). Installing a new CPU made all problems go away. And the box is rock solid with or without IDE-DMA turned on.
Regards Florian
P.S: A little block quoted below in case someone wants to remember what this was about:
On 16 Sep 2002 15:46:35 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 15:26, Florian Hinzmann wrote: > > > > On 16-Sep-2002 Alan Cox wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 12:17, Florian Hinzmann wrote: > > >> kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } > > >> kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=97567071, high=5, lo > > >> kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } > > > > > > Which is the drive reporting a physical media error > > > > Which seems to exist only while using the named combinations of DMA access > > and kernel versions. While using i.e. 2.4.19 without DMA I can access the same data, > > dd the whole disk to /dev/null or run badblock checks without finding > > any physical media errors. > > > > 2.4.19 should complain, too, if there is a physical error indeed, right? > > The "sectoridnotfound" return is from the drive. That makes it very hard > to believe it isnt a physical error >
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