Hi all,
probably was already discussed (I hope not).
I get a really bad freeze when there's heavy writing over the 2 x 120GB
WD disks.
reading seems to be ok.
Since Im really not an expert in setting up IDE stuff the only things I
can say is that
there's no OOPS or error or nothing on the screen/log.
The freeze is reproducible both with 2.4.19-pre10 and 2.4.18.
In my config I have tryed with/without DMA/Promise special options and
different combinations
of them with no results.
I will be glad to offer more info and help if someone can kindly tell me
how to debug
this. If it's needed I can consider providing access to the machine.
Thanks
Fabio
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi all,
> probably was already discussed (I hope not).
>
> I get a really bad freeze when there's heavy writing over the 2 x
> 120GB WD disks.
>
> reading seems to be ok.
>
> Since Im really not an expert in setting up IDE stuff the only things
> I can say is that
>
> there's no OOPS or error or nothing on the screen/log.
>
> The freeze is reproducible both with 2.4.19-pre10 and 2.4.18.
> In my config I have tryed with/without DMA/Promise special options and
> different combinations
Those have no effect in 2.4.19-pre10 and a few earlier pres; I don't
remember the exact number.
> of them with no results.
>
> I will be glad to offer more info and help if someone can kindly tell
> me how to debug
>
> this. If it's needed I can consider providing access to the machine.
Does the machine recover from the freeze or do you have to reboot?
--
M?ns Rullg?rd
[email protected]
M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>
>
>Does the machine recover from the freeze or do you have to reboot?
>
>
>
I have to hard reset the machine. Keyboard is unuseable at that stage.
not even Magic sysreq works.
Fabio
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[email protected]> writes:
> M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >Does the machine recover from the freeze or do you have to reboot?
>
> I have to hard reset the machine. Keyboard is unuseable at that stage.
> not even Magic sysreq works.
Are you running X? If yes, try reproducing the error while at a text
console. It's possible some panic message will make it that far. Messages
from a dying kernel will often not make it into the syslog.
--
M?ns Rullg?rd
[email protected]
M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>
>Are you running X? If yes, try reproducing the error while at a text
>console. It's possible some panic message will make it that far. Messages
>from a dying kernel will often not make it into the syslog.
>
>
>
Unfortunatly there's no X and no space to install it. That box should be
my home
(read: cheap) fileserver and runs just the minimum installation. It
boots from a
mostly full 500Mb hd and the idea was to use the rest for serving the
other boxes.
Fabio
Jussi Laako wrote:
> No matter which one of the
> installations is booted, the system will lock up if the VIA controller is in
> use at the same time as the PDC. However, system seems to be stable (short
> test priod though) if only the PDC controller is in use. (I left the old
> drives attached to the VIA controller unmounted.)
>
> Does this problem sound similar to yours?
seems similar to my problem. If I connect large (75-120G) disks on
both PDC channels and run /sbin/badblocks in parallel (dd might do, too)
I get a kernel panic/freeze. I get it even with no disk on the onboard
controller. I can reproduce this on two different VIA boards with both,
a PDC20267 and a PDC20262, too. On a board with Ali chiset, however
no error occured during a short (5 minutes) test. On a board with an
Intel
chipset I got some "DMA timeout" after 3 hours, but may be this was
an unrelated problem.
Dieter.