Via KT133 and 2.4.8 and a hard disk problem ?

Via KT133 and 2.4.8 and a hard disk problem ?

[David Flynn]

All;

What is the status of the problems with the old KT133 and kernel 2.4.8 ?

I have a system here which looks to me as if its beginning to suffer from
HDD failure, just do anything with the disk for a while and you get disk {
busy } errors (and there is an 0x0d error code there somewhere) ... (oh, and
the HDD light reports no activity) normally, i would view this as a good
time to pull all the data off the drive and replace it.

However, i have noticed that the chipset used is the Via KT133, and am now
wondering if this is actually a HDD problem (i still am siding with this) or
a chipset problem.

You can guarantee the problem by just running badblocks -sv /dev/hda

and it will happen at some point, (not always the same place)

Can anyone offer any advice on this ?

Thanks,

Dave

Re: Via KT133 and 2.4.8 and a hard disk problem ?

[Martin Eriksson]

I often get these kinds of problems with semi-old HD's (UDMA33) when I run
*anything* else than DMA enabled (like when I run stuff like
hdparm -c1 -m16 -u1). It could also be a hard drive reporting the wrong
capabilities to the IDE controller.

A "hdparm /dev/hdX" and "hdparm -I /dev/hdX" would be most helpful to
diagnose your problem.

/Martin (fresh & new to l-k)

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Flynn" <Dave@keston.u-net.com>
To: "linux kernel mailinglist" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: Via KT133 and 2.4.8 and a hard disk problem ?


> All;
>
> What is the status of the problems with the old KT133 and kernel 2.4.8 ?
>
> I have a system here which looks to me as if its beginning to suffer from
> HDD failure, just do anything with the disk for a while and you get disk {
> busy } errors (and there is an 0x0d error code there somewhere) ... (oh,
and
> the HDD light reports no activity) normally, i would view this as a good
> time to pull all the data off the drive and replace it.
>
> However, i have noticed that the chipset used is the Via KT133, and am now
> wondering if this is actually a HDD problem (i still am siding with this)
or
> a chipset problem.

<snip>

Re: Via KT133 and 2.4.8 and a hard disk problem ?

[David Grant]

I've had these problems before.  Can you provide a listings of the kernel
errors you are getting?  I'm curious myself, and I'm sure this would help
any developers as well.  Also, is it an old KT133 (with vt82c686a chip) or
KT133A (with vt82c686b chip).

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Flynn" <Dave@keston.u-net.com>
To: "linux kernel mailinglist" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 3:57 AM
Subject: Via KT133 and 2.4.8 and a hard disk problem ?


> All;
>
> What is the status of the problems with the old KT133 and kernel 2.4.8 ?
>
> I have a system here which looks to me as if its beginning to suffer from
> HDD failure, just do anything with the disk for a while and you get disk {
> busy } errors (and there is an 0x0d error code there somewhere) ... (oh,
and
> the HDD light reports no activity) normally, i would view this as a good
> time to pull all the data off the drive and replace it.
>
> However, i have noticed that the chipset used is the Via KT133, and am now
> wondering if this is actually a HDD problem (i still am siding with this)
or
> a chipset problem.
>
> You can guarantee the problem by just running badblocks -sv /dev/hda
>
> and it will happen at some point, (not always the same place)
>
> Can anyone offer any advice on this ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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Re: Via KT133 and 2.4.8 and a hard disk problem ?

[Martin Eriksson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Grant" <davidgrant79@hotmail.com>
To: "David Flynn" <Dave@keston.u-net.com>; "linux kernel mailinglist"
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: Via KT133 and 2.4.8 and a hard disk problem ?

> I've had these problems before.  Can you provide a listings of the kernel
> errors you are getting?  I'm curious myself, and I'm sure this would help
> any developers as well.  Also, is it an old KT133 (with vt82c686a chip) or
> KT133A (with vt82c686b chip).

Actually, the KT133 revision has nothing (substantial) to do with the 686
chip. There were some motherboards with both KT133 and 686B, such as my MSI
K7TPRO 2-A. There are also AMD chipsets that use the 686A/B as an IO
chipset, and other VIA chipsets, such as Apollo Pro.

_____________________________________________________
|  Martin Eriksson <nitrax@giron.wox.org>
|  MSc CSE student, department of Computing Science
|  Umeå University, Sweden