Re: Athlon problem report summary

[Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:30:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> 2.  'My athlon box is fine until I am swapping' {and using DMA}
> 
> Compiler independant, CPU version independant. All victims have a VIA chipset.
> This one may be linked to the reported problems with VIA PCI. Two of the 
> reporters found disabling IDE DMA fixed this one

That's intresting.  I had no problem at all.

hda and hdc are using udma33 here.  hdb contains the swap, and
gets this error on boot:

hdb: Conner Peripherals 340MB - CP30344, ATA DISK drive
hdb: set_drive_speed_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
hdb: set_drive_speed_status: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
ide0: Drive 1 didn't accept speed setting. Oh, well.
[...]
[same error message]
hdb: 670320 sectors (343 MB) w/64KiB Cache, CHS=665/16/63, DMA

hdparm -iv /dev/hdb output:

/dev/hdb:
 multcount    =  0 (off)
 I/O support  =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 nowerr       =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    =  8 (on)
 geometry     = 665/16/63, sectors = 670320, start = 0

 Model=Conner Peripherals 340MB - CP30344, FwRev=6FT1.67, SerialNo=BQB2B7G
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
 RawCHS=665/16/63, TrkSize=40887, SectSize=649, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=64kB, MaxMultSect=64, MultSect=off
 DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=1, DMA=yes, OldDMA=1
 CurCHS=665/16/63, CurSects=980418570, LBA=no
 DMA modes: *mword0

Hope this helps.


Kurt