Re: cerberus errors on 2.4.19 (ide dma related)

[Ed Sweetman <safemode@speakeasy.net>]

On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 02:44, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> (overview written in hindsight of writing email)  
> I ran all these tests on ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 
> when dma was enabled or disabled is was done to both drives at the same
> time.
> I do not know if cerberus cares where it is run or not to do it's tests,
> but the program was on the drive it was tested on when run and
> throughout the email i assume it only runs it's drive tests primarily on
> the partition you've run it on.   I see now that this is probably wrong
> and instead of changing where i run the test i should alternate which
> drive gets dma enabled and disabled and process of elimination will show
> just the kind of dma bug i'm seeing
> (/overview)
> 
> 
> I've been trying to track down why i seem to get disk corruption on my
> harddrives after some good amount of usage all the time.  It's been
> happening for a long time across a number of different kernel versions. 
> I believe this is because i stick to the same board manufacturer, Abit
> and use via chipsets. 
> 
> I ran cerberus with dma enabled at UDMA4 and UDMA2, at udma4 cerberus
> reports MEMORY errors and BBidehost2bus0target0lun0discN1 errors, but
> mostly MEMORY errors before the kernel panics after a minute or two.  At
> udma2 the cerberus reports no errors but panics after a minute or two.  
> I ran cerberus a couple times on each, with UDMA4 it began to error
> about 30 seconds into the test with MEMORY errors.  
> 
> I thought, well this could be ram errors, so i ran memtest for a couple
> hours.  Nothing reported as being bad.  I then thought, my hardware
> could be the problem, so I ran e2fsck -c on the partition I was running
> cerberus on with dma disabled via hdparm -d0 and it completed with no
> errors found.  I then rebooted, enabled udma2 and the kernel panic'd
> with the same test after a few minutes.  
> 
> The rest of this email is just information regarding the setup 
> 
> 
> First off the way my fs's are setup are as follows: 
> 
> swap + files are now all on my primary master ide drive on the
> motherboard ide controller. Swap on my primary master promise controller
> seemed too problematic because of corruption, but i'm not sure if the
> corruption i've seen is related only to the promise controller or if
> it's not controller specific. I'll have to run the test without swap on
> the promise drive and then run the test on my primary motherboard hdd
> and again without swap.  
> 
> cerberus version : 1.3.0pre4 
> dmesg info : http://signal-lost.homeip.net/lkml/dmesg
> hdparm info : http://signal-lost.homeip.net/lkml/hdparm
> pci info : http://signal-lost.homeip.net/lkml/lspci
> 
> tests completed before escaping in pio mode:
> http://signal-lost.homeip.net/lkml/tests_passed
> 
> Errors during last test that caused kernel panic (udma2)
> http://signal-lost.homeip.net/lkml/memory
> 
> Errors during test of udma4 (first test) 
> http://signal-lost.homeip.net/lkml/memory2
> http://signal-lost.homeip.net/lkml/dmesg2
> various segfaults of badblocks of BBidehost tests. 
> 
> 
> I ran memtest for an extensive amount of time after the first test
> reported memory errors and go absolutely no errors (wasn't using dma
> mode at the time either).  And since these errors aren't produced when
> not using DMA on my drives I find it very unlikely that it's "System
> Ram" as the cause of them.  I'm going to rerun the test on my
> motherboard primary  drive after posting this in case something happens
> and i hose everything.  

Forgot to add my kernel config. 
http://signal-lost.homeip.net/lkml/config