Hi, all. Last year, I asked here why my new hdd doesn't boot up with dma mode. In that time, I hardly knew about a hdd, so, though I received many advices by the list, I couldn't put it into practice.
With alot of reading and searching, I think now I know better than me of last year, Let me ask about the same problem. My story is this, I bought a hdd, HDS722580VLAT20, HITACHI Deskstar 82.3GB, and attached it to my box as primary slave(or hdb). My mobo(Asus P2B)'s bios so old that didn't recognize it as it is. (the old bios said my new hdd is only 32G) With new beta bios(1014.003) installed, everything went fine till I boot linux(2.4.22, debian testing). my *old hdd* got up with dma mode. (new one boot up with dma) This is the dmesg at that very moment. -------------------------------------------- PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX12.7A, ATA DISK drive hdb: HDS722580VLAT20, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c04102a0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) blk: queue c04103e8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: CD-950E/TKU, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: 24901632 sectors (12750 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1550/255/63, UDMA(33) hdb: attached ide-disk driver. hdb: 160836480 sectors (82348 MB) w/1794KiB Cache, CHS=10011/255/63, UDMA(33) hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition check: hda:<4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 hda: error waiting for DMA hda: dma timeout retry: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } blk: queue c04102a0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hda1 hda2 hda3 <<4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 hda: error waiting for DMA hda: dma timeout retry: status=0x5a { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Index } hda5<4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 hda: error waiting for DMA hda: dma timeout retry: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hda6<4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 hda: error waiting for DMA hda: dma timeout retry: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 > hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... sb: I/O, IRQ, and DMA are mandatory YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 es1371: version v0.32 time 12:00:53 Nov 28 2003 Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] usb.c: registered new driver hub host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:04.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:09.0 -------------------------------------------- mobo:Asus P2B hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX12.7A hdb: HDS722580VLAT20(HITACHI Deskstar) kernel: 2.4.22(debian testing, but now I running unstalbe) # lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 Memory behind bridge: e1800000-e2efffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e2f00000-e3ffffff 00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 root:~# lspci -v 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 1.0 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 Memory behind bridge: e1800000-e2efffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e2f00000-e3ffffff 00:04.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:04.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32 I/O ports at d800 [size=16] 00:04.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9 I/O ports at d400 [size=32] 00:04.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9 00:09.0 Serial controller: Rockwell International HCF 56k Data/Fax/Voice/Spkp (w/Handset) Modem (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [8250]) Subsystem: Rockwell International HCF 56k Data/Fax/Voice/Spkp (w/Handset) Modem Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9 Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-724F [DS-1 Audio Controller] (rev 03) Subsystem: Yamaha Corporation DS-XG PCI Audio CODEC Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5 Memory at e0800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 1 00:0b.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-7850 (rev 01) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10 I/O ports at d000 [size=256] Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] 00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS) Subsystem: Allied Telesyn International: Unknown device a104 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11 I/O ports at b800 [size=32] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 AGP (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G200 AGP Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at e3000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at e2000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at e1800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Expansion ROM at e2ff0000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 1.0 $ grep -i ide config-2.4.22 |grep '^[^#]' CONFIG_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y this is what I've done(and found). 1. exchanging ide cable with secandary's one(no effect). 2. hdparm -d1 /dev/hda # hdparm -d1 /dev/hda /dev/hda: setting using_dma to 1 (on) using_dma = 1 (on) # (fine!) # hdparm -t /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffered disk reads: 2 MB in 92.15 seconds = 22.22 kB/sec (too slow!!) # hdparm -v /dev/hda /dev/hdb: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) <- automatically keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry = 1550/255/63, sectors = 24901632, start = 0 # tail -f /var/log/messages Jan 11 10:51:25 kamome kernel: hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 Jan 11 10:51:35 kamome kernel: hdb: dma timeout retry: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Jan 11 10:51:35 kamome kernel: Jan 11 10:51:55 kamome kernel: hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 Jan 11 10:52:05 kamome kernel: hdb: dma timeout retry: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Jan 11 10:52:05 kamome kernel: Jan 11 10:52:25 kamome kernel: hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 Jan 11 10:52:35 kamome kernel: hdb: dma timeout retry: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } Jan 11 10:52:35 kamome kernel: When I had only one hdd installed, my box boot smoothly. this is the evidence. -------------------------------------------- Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux-2.4.22 ro root=307 apm=on apm=power-off Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 334.099 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 666.82 BogoMIPS Memory: 190816k/196596k available (1908k kernel code, 5392k reserved, 754k data, 136k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 128K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 128K Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU0: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 365.52 usecs. SMP motherboard not detected. enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 334.1018 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 66.8203 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 668203, slice: 334101 CPU0<T0:668192,T1:334080,D:11,S:334101,C:668203> Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) All processors have done init_idle PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0720, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:04.0 Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) Starting kswapd Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]). parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP(,...)] parport0: irq 7 detected pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:09.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:04.2 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 149M agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000 [drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0 [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel 440BX @ 0xe4000000 64MB [drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 1 [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel 440BX @ 0xe4000000 64MB [drm] Initialized i810 1.2.0 20010920 on minor 2 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX12.7A, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c040c2a0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: CD-950E/TKU, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: 24901632 sectors (12750 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=1550/255/63, UDMA(33) hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones... sb: I/O, IRQ, and DMA are mandatory YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996 es1371: version v0.32 time 20:54:21 Oct 16 2003 Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] usb.c: registered new driver hub host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:04.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:09.0 host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 9 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb.c: registered new driver usblp -------------------------------------------- Help me out this mess, please. 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