Hi Andre,
I wonder if you know anything about a issues with AMD-Irongate IDE
controller and a Maxtor IDE disk?
Here's what happens: The thing runs fine in (hdparm -d1 -m8 -c1) mode,
giving good performance and no problems for some time (something like
some days, a week, a month).
Then, suddenly, during disk activity, the hard disk access stops.
Linux is running fine, but as there is no more HD access possible,
more and more processes start hanging.
The strange thing: When rebooting using the reset button, the BIOS
can not find the hard disk. You may press reset as often as you want
to no avail.
After a power cycle, everything is back to normal, again.
This happened a couple of times now, already.
I did not catch any syslog messages, unfortunately, but I'll configure
syslog to log over the network, so the next time, I may have something.
I suspect the drive's firmware or the AMD IDE chipset driver.
Any ideas?
Some data:
Kernel 2.2.16.SuSE (w/ your IDE patches ide.2.2.16.20000711-2-lvm)
AMD Irongate mainboard (Asus K7M), Athlon-600, 256MB.
* linux/drivers/ide/amd7409.c Version 0.03 Feb. 10, 2000
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-756 [Viper] IDE (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at f000
Model=Maxtor 91536U6, FwRev=VA510PF0, SerialNo=W605BV5A
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=8
DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=0
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=30000096
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2 mode3 mode4
Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5
root@gum03:/usr/src/linux-2.2.16.SuSE/drivers/block # cat /proc/ide/ide0/config
pci bus 00 device 39 vid 1022 did 7409 channel 0
22 10 09 74 05 00 00 02 03 8a 01 01 00 20 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
01 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a8 20 a8 20 ff 00 ff ff
03 00 03 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Regards,
--
Kurt Garloff <[email protected]> [Eindhoven, NL]
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