Re: IDE lockups in 2.1.95+
mlord (mlord@pobox.com)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 18:20:59 -0400
Serguei Koubouchine wrote:
>
> Hi, everybody!
>
> I'm experiencing total lockups when system is doing a lot of disk activity
> with IDE disk. No such lockups occur when working out of SCSI HDD.
>
> When trying to build glibc-2.0.7pre3 with "make -j" (root fs is on IDE HDD)
> system stops somewhere in the middle of the build. I have the following
> on the console:
>
> === Cut ===
> hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> hda: DMA Disabled
> === Cut ===
>
> System is still responsive, I can switch consoles and enter some text on
> any virtual consoles. Network does work. But root fs is locked out, so the
> only way to recover is to push the red button (or use SysRq magic key) to
> reboot the system.
>
> System info:
>
> - GigaByte GA-586DX MB with 2 x iPP-200MMX and aic7880U on board.
> - 128 Mbyte RAM.
> - IDE HDD QUANTUM FIREBALL ST3.2A (used for development with 2.1.xx kernels).
> - SCSI devices attached:
This is probably NOT an IDE problem
Try the pre-patch-2.1.96-1 to see if it fixes the aic788 driver.
-ml
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