Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Marlin <> | Date | Mon, 22 Sep 2003 18:13:49 -0400 | Subject | Hard lockup with Gigabyte 7VTXE motherboard |
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I have recently started experiencing hard lockups when transferring large files. In particular a huge wave file destined for a CDROM. I have no problems at all doing normal activities. I tried in order the following to make it stop:
1. Recompiled with kernel 2.4.22. 2. Turned off I/O APIC (no luck) 3. Turned off APIC with noapic option (no luck) 4. Updated BIOS. (no luck) 5. Turned off DMA for the drive. (luck)
Turning off DMA seemed to cause it to stop locking up, but I started seeing these I/O storms where it would take a while to read or write instead of locking up. I recently purchased a new hard drive (Seagate 120GB), but I had been using the drive fine until suddenly it started happening. It obviously has something to do with DMA, but should it be locking up. Shouldn't the kernel turn off DMA on the drive if it has problems?
I had another Seagate drive appear to go bad on me within about 3 months. It was also completely DMA related. I am wondering if it was the drive or this VIA chipset causing the problem. Could there be something wrong with this board that is causing the drives to go south prematurely? Or is there a problem with the chipset? I have not seen these problems until fairly recently.
I am not subscribed to the list so could any responses be CC'd to me directly. Thanks for any help.
Here is the output from lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP] 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07) 00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX [Linksys EtherFast 10/100] (rev 25) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b) 00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b) 00:11.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1b) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 30) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3] (rev a3) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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