Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2004 05:50:12 -0600 (CST) | From | Bruce Allen <> | Subject | Re: Strange DMA-errors and system hang with Promise 20268 |
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> > Mar 4 01:01:06 darkside kernel: hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 > > Mar 5 01:02:00 darkside kernel: hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 > > Mar 6 01:10:22 darkside kernel: hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 > > > > Can you somehow correlate this to start of S.M.A.R.T selftests? > > Nope. To this date I wasn't running anything of the sort. I ran a few > selftest now though.. Nothing happened.. > > > I suspect it having something to do with 2.4.25 new "One last > > read after the timeout" in ide-iops.c and accessing the drive > > while selftest running (possibly especially short selftest). > > Here, daily at 01:00 smartmontools runs smart short selftests > > and a bit later the machine hangs. > > Today, I disabled that job and the machine stays stable.
Does the disk's SMART error log (smartctl -l error) show any entries related to this problem? If so, please print them with the latest version of smartmontools (5.30) which makes them more 'human readable" than previous versions.
Bruce
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