Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:14:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:14:27 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:17939 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:14:26 -0400 Message-ID: <3D8B2E51.7040108@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:18:57 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Finnie CC: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: IDE Hard disk geometry problem in 2.4.19 / 2.4.20pre7 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2028 Lines: 60 James Finnie wrote: > Hi, > > I have a large number of IDE hard disks here where I work. Since moving to > 2.4.19 from 2.4.17, several of these disks have stopped working, resulting > in a kernel panic after the drive has declared itself to have 0 cylinders! > All the disks that have broken are the following: > > Seagate 80GB U6 ST380020ACE with Firmware version 4.65 > > We have lots of these same drives, with FW v 3.34, that all work fine. I do > not have a single drive with the 4.65 firmware working. > > My problem is that these drives used to work fine, with 2.4.17. They are > not obsolete hardware, I think they are all less than 6 months old. > > I have seen this on CS5530 with the standard kernel PCI IDE, and on SIS630 > with the SIS Kernel IDE driver. > > Setting ide=nodma makes no difference. > > Here is an excerpt from the kernel console booting: > > > .... > hda: ST380020ACE, ATA DISK drive > .... > hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } > hda: setmax_ext LBA 1, native 0 > hda: 0 sectors (0 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS 0/255/63, (U)DMA > .... > hda2: bad access: block=2, count=2 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 (hda), sector 2 > EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock > hda2: bad access: block=2, count=2 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 (hda), sector 2 > EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02 > > > Is this a result of all the new IDE stuff that went in in 2.4.19??? "All the new IDE stuff" hasn't really hit 2.4.x yet... Do you have CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE set? If yes, do things start working if you disable it? Can you post the other IDE options you have set in your kernel config? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/