Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:14:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:13:57 -0500 Received: from etpmod.phys.tue.nl ([131.155.111.35]:11782 "EHLO etpmod.phys.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:13:49 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 15:42:01 +0100 From: Kurt Garloff To: Andre Hedrick Cc: Linux kernel list Subject: AMD-Viper & Maxtor 91536U6 dieing Message-ID: <20001221154201.Q2157@garloff.etpnet.phys.tue.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Kurt Garloff , Andre Hedrick , Linux kernel list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="w1A23YewkF9s+fLd" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.16 i686 X-PGP-Info: on http://www.garloff.de/kurt/mykeys.pgp X-PGP-Key: 1024D/1C98774E, 1024R/CEFC9215 Organization: TUE/NL, SuSE/FRG Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --w1A23YewkF9s+fLd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 (re= v 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at f000 Model=3DMaxtor 91536U6, FwRev=3DVA510PF0, SerialNo=3DW605BV5A Config=3D{ Fixed } RawCHS=3D16383/16/63, TrkSize=3D0, SectSize=3D0, ECCbytes=3D57 BuffType=3D3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=3D2048kB, MaxMultSect=3D16, MultSect= =3D8 DblWordIO=3Dno, OldPIO=3D2, DMA=3Dyes, OldDMA=3D0 CurCHS=3D16383/16/63, CurSects=3D16514064, LBA=3Dyes, LBAsects=3D30000096 tDMA=3D{min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2=20 IORDY=3Don/off, tPIO=3D{min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4=20 UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2 mode3 mode4=20 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/co= nfig=20 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, --=20 Kurt Garloff [Eindhoven, NL] Physics: Plasma simulations [TU Eindhoven, NL] Linux: SCSI, Security [SuSE Nuernberg, FRG] (See mail header or public key servers for PGP2 and GPG public keys.) --w1A23YewkF9s+fLd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6Qha5xmLh6hyYd04RAsXQAJ9lMpvCttc7NScz/zQA1KEDF6ZpEACdEQOO lJKoetK4qkFCZvMgP713rTc= =iPDm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --w1A23YewkF9s+fLd-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/