Re: IDE freeze & reset

theone@ihug.co.nz
Sun, 22 Nov 1998 16:09:52 +0000

On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 05:28:00PM +0100, David Monniaux wrote:
> with kernel 2.0.34 (source straight from RH 5.1) with APM and PCMCIA
> enabled, using a UMC8886BF IDE controller and
> hda: IBM-DDLA-21620, 1551MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=3152/16/63
> on an Olivetti Echos 133EM laptop, I get the following symptoms:
> - hard disk accesses cease for a moment and a process (say, LaTeX) waits
> for them;
> - the kernel gets angry, reports
> hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> then resets the IDE bus and reports
> ide0: reset: success

I get the same thing under 2.1.129 with the same IDE chipset. (and all other tried kernels)

I don't have either APM or PCMCIA installed though.

Nov 21 22:12:53 acidlake kernel: UM8886BF: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 91
Nov 21 22:12:53 acidlake kernel: UM8886BF: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Nov 21 22:12:53 acidlake kernel: hda: SAMSUNG SHD-3122A (APOLLO), ATA DISK drive
Nov 21 22:12:53 acidlake kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Nov 21 22:12:53 acidlake kernel: hda: SAMSUNG SHD-3122A (APOLLO), 240MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=937/15/35

I use multi-sector of zero, as I seem to get corruption with the default of 16.

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