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bLanark
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 Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:40 am Post subject: System freezes |
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My PC regularly freezes. It normally runs headless, but I've had it connected to a display so I could catch any error messages, and this is what appears on the console (all copied by hand, so there may be errors/typos):
| Code: | systemname hda:dma_timer_expiry: dma_status == 0x61
systemname hda:DMA timeout error
systemname hda:dma timeout error: status=0x50 {DriveReady SeekComplete}
systemname hda:read_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
systemname hda:read_intr: status=0x04 {DriveStatusError}
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The machine has the hard drive light on constantly, but it does not respond to any input from network or keyboard - it's hung.
Here's what dmesg says about my hard drives:
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ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:00.1
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS730 ATA 100 (1st gen) controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4120B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-812S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
PDC20268: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:09.0
PDC20268: chipset revision 2
PDC20268: ROM enabled at 0xcffe0000
PDC20268: 100% native mode on irq 5
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc808-0xc80f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hde: Maxtor 7Y250P0, ATA DISK drive
ide2 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xd402 on irq 5
hdg: Maxtor 7Y250P0, ATA DISK drive
ide3 at 0xd000-0xd007,0xcc02 on irq 5
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 80293248 sectors (41110 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 >
hde: max request size: 1024KiB
hde: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
hdg: max request size: 1024KiB
hdg: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0: p1
hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 63X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) |
This system stalling has only started since I replaced the aging hda with a new one, as the old one was very noisy and had been subjected to excessive temperature. I'm using high quality cables, all connections are sound (AFAICT).
Can anyone offer any advice? I'm running a 2.6.6 kernel, by the way.
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ali3nx
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:52 am Post subject: |
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I think what you need to do is recompile your kernel with use multimode by default support enabled in your kernel configuration. Most ata hard drives will require this option to be enabled.
| Code: | <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
<*> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
--- Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
[ ] Support for SATA (deprecated; conflicts with libata SATA driver)
[ ] Use old disk-only driver on primary interface
<*> Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
[*] Use multi-mode by default
<*> Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
< > Include IDE/ATAPI TAPE support (EXPERIMENTAL)
< > Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support
< > SCSI emulation support
[ ] IDE Taskfile Access
[ ] IDE Taskfile IO (EXPERIMENTAL)
--- IDE chipset support/bugfixes
<*> generic/default IDE chipset support |
also check your kernel config and ensure you have your ide chipset drivers compiled into the kernel image and setup hdparm for the finishing touch. you should see a major improvement in performance and stability. I have a full kernel config available here that your welcome to use. you might also consider updating to ~x86 gentoo-dev-sources as there are allot of stability fixes for 2.6.6
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bLanark
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:02 am Post subject: Thanks, but . . . |
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Thanks for all that. However, I already have them in my kernel.
I have built a 2.6.9 kernel and will switch to that when I am in front of the machine (I'm fairly confident that switching kernels will work, but it would be typical if the one time it went wrong is when I try it remotely.
I have also disabled auto-sleep on that drive, in the hope that it will stop the problem from happening.
Cheers!
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| Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:10 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | and setup hdparm for the finishing touch. |
I missed that, 1st time. Apart from sleep mode (which I've disabled for now) I have no hdparm settings - what should I be doing?
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bLanark
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:50 pm Post subject: Still shafted |
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I went back to the 2.4.23 kernel that I had been running for many months without problem, and this morning the machine hung again - twice!
I have noticed the drive doing the "click of death" that my IBM DeskStars used to do, before I ditched them, and am doing a S.M.A.R.T. test on the drive at the moment, but I wonder if anyone can assist just in case it's not the drive.
The cables are good for UDMA-100. The controller for this drive is in the motherboard, and worked for months at a time with an older hard drive (1999/2000 vintage). The drive is a Maxtor 6E040L0, about 3 months old. All connections appear to be fine. I'm using the correct ends for the cables (they're labelled).
So, for anyone reading: | Quote: | | Is there anything I could/should do with this drive and hdparm or any other utility? Please? |
Cheers,
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