On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Mike Porter wrote:
> I missed the beginning of this thread. I have the same board you
> have. I upgraded the BIOS to 1012 (maybe 1011 - I forget
> exactly). Any time I enable the full set of options (AUTODMA,
> PIIX tuning, etc, ie: what Andre says should be used), I eventually
> get DMA timeouts. If I'm careful, ie: booted into single user
> mode, root mounted r/o, DMA is turned off automatically when the
> failure occurs and the system recovers. If I'm running say, X,
> when the DMA failure occurs, sometimes the system can hang. I
> don't know exactly the result since I don't try testing DMA on a
> r/w drive any more. If I use something like dd if=/dev/hda
> of=/dev/null, I'll get DMA timeouts within a couple of seconds.
I do not see the error :-(.........
I am using an engineering Shiner II AMD K7-2 system with 192M.
I have TWO drives burning, X windows, and SSHed in to the system..........
I need to test my i810, SiS620, 15 PCI-IDE cards under SMP, but if it was
going to crash, I would have expected........
I do not see the issue......
i810 DDing both drive and CD and the WHIRL of the CD is KILLING me...
UPDATED
2788 tty2 R 5:33 dd if /dev/hdc of /dev/null
2790 tty3 S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
2791 tty3 S 0:00 tee /root/.X.err
2800 tty3 S 0:00 xinit /root/.xinitrc --
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null
25429824+0 records in
25429824+0 records out
2788 tty2 R 9:02 dd if /dev/hdc of /dev/null
2790 tty3 S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
2791 tty3 S 0:00 tee /root/.X.err
2800 tty3 S 0:00 xinit /root/.xinitrc --
2780 tty3 S 0:00 -bash
2788 tty2 R 11:38 dd if /dev/hdc of /dev/null
2790 tty3 S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
2791 tty3 S 0:00 tee /root/.X.err
2800 tty3 S 0:00 xinit /root/.xinitrc --
Will report the final out........but I can not repeat with "Quality Drives".
ORGINAL
2775 tty1 R 3:40 dd if /dev/hda of /dev/null
2780 tty3 S 0:00 -bash
2788 tty2 R 2:50 dd if /dev/hdc of /dev/null
2790 tty3 S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/startx
2791 tty3 S 0:00 tee /root/.X.err
2800 tty3 S 0:00 xinit /root/.xinitrc --
2801 ? S 0:03 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0
2803 tty3 S 0:00 fvwm
............
2827 pts/1 S 0:00 tail -f /root/.X.err
2846 tty3 S 0:01 /opt/netscape/netscape
2855 tty3 S 0:00 (dns helper)
2858 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL CX13.0A, FwRev=A3F.0F00, SerialNo=134911811509
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=32256, SectSize=21298, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=418kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=25429824
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4
Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 15 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4
Kernel Drive Geometry LogicalCHS=25228/16/63
hdparm -i /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Model=IBM-DPTA-373420, FwRev=P71OA30A, SerialNo=JXYJXA05393
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=34
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1961kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=66835440
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4
Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4
Kernel Drive Geometry LogicalCHS=66305/16/63
uname -a
Linux 3ware 2.3.99-pre3 #1 Tue Mar 21 14:06:26 PST 2000 i686 unknown
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 1
model name : AMD-K7(tm) Processor
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 698.666763
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov 16 mmxext mmx 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 1392.64
i810
/dev/hda:
Model=Maxtor 91366U4, FwRev=RA530JN0, SerialNo=H40MEC8C
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=26588016
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 *udma4
Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5
Kernel Drive Geometry LogicalCHS=26377/16/63
hdparm -i /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Model=LTN483, FwRev=BL1A, SerialNo=
Config={ SpinMotCtl Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
(maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2
227 tty2 S 0:00 -bash
234 tty1 R 2:09 dd if /dev/hda of /dev/null
262 tty3 S 0:00 login -- root
263 tty3 S 0:00 -bash
270 tty2 D 0:17 dd if /dev/hdc of /dev/null
272 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
273 ttyp0 S 0:00 -bash
282 ttyp0 R 0:00 ps ax
Linux i810 2.3.99-pre3 #1 Tue Mar 21 22:12:02 PST 2000 i686 unknown
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Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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