On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:12:27AM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
> > > 2) What's in /proc/ide/via?
> >
> > It's not there since I disabled the VIA driver.
>
> Ok. Could you send me this file when you boot with fs r-o?
Ok, but this is with the wrong disc. Withe the bad disc, drive0 looks
exacly like drive2, i.e. normal UDMA(33). Sorry about that.
----------VIA BusMastering IDE Configuration----------------
Driver Version: 2.1e
South Bridge: VIA vt82c686a rev 0x1b
Command register: 0x7
Latency timer: 32
PCI clock: 33MHz
Master Read Cycle IRDY: 0ws
Master Write Cycle IRDY: 0ws
FIFO Output Data 1/2 Clock Advance: off
BM IDE Status Register Read Retry: on
Max DRDY Pulse Width: No limit
-----------------------Primary IDE-------Secondary IDE------
Read DMA FIFO flush: on on
End Sect. FIFO flush: on on
Prefetch Buffer: on on
Post Write Buffer: on on
FIFO size: 8 8
Threshold Prim.: 1/2 1/2
Bytes Per Sector: 512 512
Both channels togth: yes yes
-------------------drive0----drive1----drive2----drive3-----
BMDMA enabled: yes yes yes yes
Transfer Mode: UDMA DMA/PIO UDMA DMA/PIO
Address Setup: 30ns 120ns 30ns 120ns
Active Pulse: 90ns 330ns 90ns 330ns
Recovery Time: 30ns 270ns 30ns 270ns
Cycle Time: 30ns 600ns 60ns 600ns
Transfer Rate: 66.0MB/s 3.3MB/s 33.0MB/s 3.3MB/s
> > > 4) If you mount your filesystem read-only, does it read garbage?
> >
> > Now here's a strange part, or possibly a crusial clue. When I booted a
> > 2.4.0 kernel (from floppy using the excellent syslinux) with "ro
> > init=/bin/sh", I could access the filesystem just fine. I could even
> > remount the root filesystem rw, and there were no problems. But I did not
> > write anything to the disk, since I was convinced that the problem was
> > gone (this was the second try). After this I rebooted with
> > ctrl-alt-delete, forgetting how bad an idea that is with init=/bin/sh,
> > booted up the RH7 2.2.16 kernel, and fsck was run with no errors.
>
> So far no problem. Rebooting with c-a-d with fs r-o is OK.
>
> > Now I
> > though all was well, rebooted from floppy again, but without the init=
> > part, and poof, it hang.
>
> Where? It could be a different reason than IDE setup ...
Don't think so. It happens on the "Remounting root read-write".
> > More interesting may be that I had to turn the computer off and on again
> > to get BIOS to find the hard drive. Repeated long reset button presses
> > did not help. It is possible that it hung during BIOS hd detection - I
> > wish I could remember.
>
> I fear this isn't much of a clue, sorry.
The clue is that the VIA driver messed up either the chipset or the drive
quite a lot, but maybe that is already obvious.
> > I suspect that I could have hung the drive with init=/bin/sh if I would
> > have done some reading and writing to the device, besides ls.
>
> Please try it. Best mke2fs your swap partition and try reading & writing
> to that. You can mkswap it back after you finish.
After more testing, I think I have isolated the problem to this disk, or
at least this disk with this controller. With another (UDMA66) disk,
there are no problems. Details at the end.
> > I think I can spend some more time today trying it out some more.
>
> Please do. 'lspci -vvxxx' data for the case without a driver, with 2.4.0
> driver and with 3.11 driver would help me find the problem.
Ok, I'll do that later.
> Make sure you *don't* have any hdparm -d1 or hdparm -X66 or similar
> stuff in your init scripts.
I'm sure I don't. This happens with a clean fresh RH7 installation.
> > I will
> > also try your 3.11 driver, which seems to be an enormous cleanup.
>
> the 2.1e driver is an enormous cleanup of the original driver from the
> 2.2 kernels. the 3.11 is an enormous cleanup of 2.1e, yes.
I have not had a chance to try the 3.11 driver yet.
Now for the new details. When writing to the disk with DMA enabled, I get
the following errors, in two different machines. Both are VIA IDE
machines. I is NOT a cable error. I have tries with several cables.
Possibly a connector or soldering problem. I'll try the disk in more
machines an get back with more info. I have to run now.
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
/Tobias
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