Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:47:26 -0400 | From | dmeyer@dmeyer ... | Subject | Re: 2.4.21 IDE problems (lost interrupt, bad DMA status) |
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In article <20030630221542.GA17416@alf.amelek.gda.pl> you write: > Hi, > > After upgrading the kernel from 2.4.20 to 2.4.21, sometimes I see > the following messages: > > hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24 > hda: lost interrupt > hda: dma_intr: bad DMA status (dma_stat=30) > hda: dma_intr: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > > It happens especially when there is a lot of disk I/O (which stops > for a few seconds when these messages appear), with three different > disks (very unlikely they all decided to die at the same time...), > one old ATA33 (QUANTUM FIREBALL SE8.4A) and two newer ATA100 disks > (WDC WD300BB-32CCB0, ST340015A). IDE controller: VIA VT82C686B > on a MSI MS-6368L motherboard. > > I don't remember seeing anything like that in any earlier 2.4.x > kernels. Is this a known problem? Is this anything dangerous - > should I disable UDMA for now to play it safe?
I never saw any corruption when I had it. I've seen this with stock kernels since 2.4.18 or so with ACPI and APIC enabled; with ac kernels I never get it (I'm suspecting the old ACPI in the stock kernels is the problem).
So my suggestion is either turn off ACPI and/or APIC, or try 2.4.21-ac.
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