Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-26 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> If software than provoke your disks to think they have bad blocks, your > disks a certainly broken. [There may be another error somewhere in linux, > but theres at least one error in the hw.] Agree, but still no reason to lock solid. That IS a bug. >

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Sep 21 23:55:44 fs1 kernel: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA > > > Sep 21 23:55:44 fs1 kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } > > > Sep 21 23:55:44 fs1 kernel: hda: DMA disabled > > Perhaps some timeouts are not set correctly or the specs include some errors, but > it is very stran

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 12:03:30PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > > Here 1.4 MB is wasted on hdb because the BIOS has invented > > this 1229/255/63 translation. The disk access methods on > > hdb and hdc is the same. > > Yes, and soon CHS will go aw

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > > Here 1.4 MB is wasted on hdb because the BIOS has invented > > this 1229/255/63 translation. The disk access methods on > > hdb and hdc is the same. > > Yes, and soon CHS will go away completely with 4

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> > > Do you have stuff logged about trying to access out of range blocks ? Putting primary to secondary slave (two UDMA devices on the same bus) fixed the lockup. The second drive was ginging errors in some cases, and sometimes it didn't. Was the reason I couldn't reproduce the unrecoverable e

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote: > Here 1.4 MB is wasted on hdb because the BIOS has invented > this 1229/255/63 translation. The disk access methods on > hdb and hdc is the same. Yes, and soon CHS will go away completely with 48-bit LBA or if you CHS these large drives. I considered

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 02:34:16PM +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > > It could be that it is choking on the fact that one drives is LBA, one > > drive isn't. Drives are identical, but dmesg gives different CHS for each > > of them.. > > A FAQ. See

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 02:34:16PM +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > It could be that it is choking on the fact that one drives is LBA, one > drive isn't. Drives are identical, but dmesg gives different CHS for each > of them.. A FAQ. See http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-14.htm

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> Do you have stuff logged about trying to access out of range blocks ? No. It start to bark about the DMA mode and then dies. Igmar - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://w

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> This is the following problem > > hda: Maxtor 71626 AP, 1554MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=789/64/63, DMA > hdb: Maxtor 91021U2, 9641MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1229/255/63, (U)DMA > hdc: Maxtor 91021U2, 9641MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=19590/16/63, (U)DMA I'll put both UDMA drives on ide1 and kick it's ass again.

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Carsten Lang wrote: > i don't think that we can blame the disks! > I have 3 different drives, which produce this error after 24 hrs under heavy load. This one chokes after about 10 mins. Total meltdown. Drives are brandnew, so I doubt the failure. If I md5sum the files aft

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > This machine is running 2.2.17aa2 (I needed LFS), and I'm able to lock it > > hard. This is what was in the logs : > > > > Sep 21 23:55:38 fs1 kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady > > SeekComplete Error } > > A disk seek failed > > > Sep 21 2

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Alan Cox
> > Uncorrectable error is the drive. > > i don't think that we can blame the disks! Uncorrectable error is the drive. Its not something the kernel can directly get wrong nor is it timing. It is possible it occurred because the kernel asked for something silly. Do you have stuff logged about t

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Andre Hedrick
Why don't you try my patches ontop and thin see what happens. Then you are claiming heavy loads. Go grab the smart-suite off of source-forge and see if you crapped out the drives. On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Carsten Lang wrote: > Hi Alan, > > > Uncorrectable error is the drive. > > > > i don't t

Re: Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Carsten Lang
Hi Alan, > Uncorrectable error is the drive. > i don't think that we can blame the disks! I have 3 different drives, which produce this error after 24 hrs under heavy load. I'm very sure, that the whole IDE-stuff is broken under heavy load conditions, but i can't find out, what happens exac

Reproducable hard locks in 2.2.17. IDE related

2000-09-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Hi, This machine is running 2.2.17aa2 (I needed LFS), and I'm able to lock it hard. This is what was in the logs : Sep 21 23:55:38 fs1 kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Sep 21 23:55:38 fs1 kernel: hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=16373