Re: Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 09 January 2011 19:21:08 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > David Baron put forth on 1/9/2011 10:07 AM: > > I get: > > HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > > > > > > > on bootup and any attempt to read or set

Re: Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 09 January 2011 19:21:08 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > David Baron put forth on 1/9/2011 10:07 AM: > > I get: > > HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > > > > > > > on bootup and any attempt to read or set

Re: Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, David Baron a écrit : > I get: > HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > on bootup and any attempt to read or set dma for either the IDE or the SATA > disk on my system. AFAIK, the -d (DMA) setting is relevant only with the legacy IDE drivers, not the new

Re: Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
David Baron put forth on 1/9/2011 10:07 AM: > I get: > HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > on bootup and any attempt to read or set dma for either the IDE or the SATA > disk on my system. This is dual core (P4 by hyperthreading?) intel cpu: > > ~$

Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread David Baron
I get: HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device on bootup and any attempt to read or set dma for either the IDE or the SATA disk on my system. This is dual core (P4 by hyperthreading?) intel cpu: ~$ lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit CPU(s

Re: SOLVED: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
# Added by Debian Installer ide-generic I decided simply delete this string from "modules" file (and update initrd then). And it has solved the problem! I am glad to hear that you have DMA working now. Nevertheless, I don't understand why Debian Installer add this ill-start

Re: SOLVED: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-08-04 Thread Anton Liaukevich
ic I decided simply delete this string from "modules" file (and update initrd then). And it has solved the problem! I am glad to hear that you have DMA working now. Nevertheless, I don't understand why Debian Installer add this ill-started module to "/etc/initramfs-tool

Re: SOLVED: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
Installer > ide-generic > > I decided simply delete this string from "modules" file (and update > initrd then). And it has solved the problem! I am glad to hear that you have DMA working now. [...] > Now I suppose that 2nd Florian's solution (booting with >

Re: SOLVED: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-29 Thread Anton Liaukevich
was shocked. That is I have seen: # Added by Debian Installer ide-generic I decided simply delete this string from "modules" file (and update initrd then). And it has solved the problem! While rebooting I haven't being seen warning message from fsck (about turned off dma mode). A

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/29/08 09:36, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Anton Liaukevich wrote: [snip] >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/interrupts >>CPU0 >> 0: 66 IO-APIC-edge timer >> 1: 2570 IO-APIC-edge i8042 >> 3: 2

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
> amd74xx module seems to be included in my initrd: [...] > lib/modules/2.6.25-2-686/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-generic.ko And so is ide-generic. You could try to rebuild the initrd without it, BUT: 1. I don't know how to do it 2. You might end up with an unbootable system For 1. it might be eno

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-29 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 20:59:09 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Anton Liaukevich wrote: In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. My hardware: motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-29 Thread Anton Liaukevich
, Jul 23, 2008 at 20:59:09 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Anton Liaukevich wrote: In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. My hardware: motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce 2 Ultra) hdd

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-28 Thread Anton Liaukevich
, Jul 23, 2008 at 20:59:09 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Anton Liaukevich wrote: In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. My hardware: motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce 2 Ultra) hdd

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
> Florian Kulzer wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 20:59:09 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: >>>>>>> Anton Liaukevich wrote: >>>>>>>> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my >>>>&

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-28 Thread Anton Liaukevich
several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. My hardware: motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce 2 Ultra) hdd: WD1200JB (ide, 120gb) cpu: Sempron 2200 (k7) [...] Today I upgraded my linux kernel to

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD]

2008-07-27 Thread Chris Bannister
: Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:59:09PM +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: >> Anton Liaukevich wrote: >>> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck &

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
gt; Anton Liaukevich wrote: >>>>>> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD >>>>>> (fsck sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on >>>>>> DMA mode. >>>>>> >>>>>> My hardwa

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 15:34:43 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/27/08 14:25, Florian Kulzer wrote: > [snip] > > > > I would be interested to see the output of > > > > udevadm info -a --name /dev/hda > > > > to check which drivers are used. > > Hey, that's cool! I forgot: On Etch (and Lenny,

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/27/08 14:25, Florian Kulzer wrote: [snip] > > I would be interested to see the output of > > udevadm info -a --name /dev/hda > > to check which drivers are used. Hey, that's cool! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-27 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 16:57:19 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 20:59:09 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Anton Liaukevich wrote: In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck sayed it while Debian

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 16:57:19 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 20:59:09 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: >>> Anton Liaukevich wrote: >>>> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck >&

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-27 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 20:59:09 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Anton Liaukevich wrote: In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. My hardware: motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-27 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:59:09PM +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Anton Liaukevich wrote: In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. My hardware: motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:59:09PM +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Anton Liaukevich wrote: >> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck >> sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. >> >> My hardware: >>

paraport DMA timeout...

2008-07-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings: I was fiddling with skype and when i tried to grep my sound card (i can listen, but i can't speak with skype) instead of the usual dmesg i just got a whole bunch of these: parport0: FIFO is stuck parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio DMA write timed out over and

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 20:59:09 +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > Anton Liaukevich wrote: >> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck >> sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. >> >> My hardware: >> motherb

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-23 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Anton Liaukevich wrote: In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. My hardware: motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce 2 Ultra) hdd: WD1200JB (ide, 120gb) cpu: Sempron 2200 (k7) My

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-18 Thread Anton Liaukevich
as working fast. When you are running Windows XP, is DMA definitely enabled then? I has run Windows XP and has been convinced of DMA to be enabled. My hdd WD1200JB-00EVA0 was running at UDMA5 (ATA100) and cdrom Sony CRX320E at UDMA2 (ATA33). [ PLEASE reply to the list and not directly to me.

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Cox
predict T.E.C. in the near future. Also after previous installation >>> of Debian lenny my hdd was working fast. >> >> When you are running Windows XP, is DMA definitely enabled then? >> > I has run Windows XP and has been convinced of DMA to be enabled. My hdd >

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Cox
of this hdd working normally > and HDD Health program on it (for S.M.A.R.T viewing) don't predict > T.E.C. in the near future. Also after previous installation of Debian > lenny my hdd was working fast. When you are running Windows XP, is DMA definitely enabled then? -- Bob

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:14:05 +0300 Anton Liaukevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > >> > > > > As Ron has written you may face a problem with the driver which is being > > used by the kernel for managing this disk. > > Try the following to see which driver is being used. > > > > readlink /sy

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Anton Liaukevich
serial: WD-WMAEK3428625 size: 111GiB (120GB) capacity: 111GiB (120GB) capabilities: ata dma lba iordy smart security pm partitioned partitioned:dos configuration: mode=udma5 signature=8942b1c6 smart=on *-volume:0 description: Windows

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Pavlos Parissis wrote: Pavlos Parissis wrote: In the beginning of July I reinstall my Debian system (lenny). At once I discover that loading cache in Aptitude (ncurses-UI mode) is very slow and in general my system is very slow. In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 09:05, Bob Cox wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:45:41 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 07/17/08 06:48, Anton Liaukevich wrote: [snip] My hardware: motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce 2 Ul

Re: Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Pavlos Parissis
> Pavlos Parissis wrote: > >> In the beginning of July I reinstall my Debian system (lenny). At once I > >> discover that loading cache in Aptitude (ncurses-UI mode) is very slow > >> and in general my system is very slow. > >> > >> In several da

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Pavlos Parissis wrote: In the beginning of July I reinstall my Debian system (lenny). At once I discover that loading cache in Aptitude (ncurses-UI mode) is very slow and in general my system is very slow. In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck sayed it while Debian

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 09:05, Bob Cox wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:45:41 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > >>> On 07/17/08 06:48, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > > [snip] > My hardware: motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:45:41 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 07/17/08 06:48, Anton Liaukevich wrote: [snip] > >> My hardware: > >> motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce 2 Ultra) > >> hdd: WD1200JB (ide, 120gb) > >> cpu: Sempron 2200 (k7) > Scratch the ch

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
t;> and in general my system is very slow. > >> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck >> sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. > >> My hardware: >> motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce 2 Ultra) &g

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
. >> >> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck >> sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. >> >> > [snip] >> I had scanned my hdd with native WD scanner and hadn't detected any >> error. Memory sc

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Pavlos Parissis
> In the beginning of July I reinstall my Debian system (lenny). At once I > discover that loading cache in Aptitude (ncurses-UI mode) is very slow > and in general my system is very slow. > > In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck > sayed it wh

Re: DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
> In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck > sayed it while Debian booting). Please, help me turn on DMA mode. > > My hardware: > motherboard: Epox 8RDA3I rev 3.3 (nForce 2 Ultra) > hdd: WD1200JB (ide, 120gb) > cpu: Sempron 2200 (k7) >

DMA is turned off on my HDD

2008-07-17 Thread Anton Liaukevich
In the beginning of July I reinstall my Debian system (lenny). At once I discover that loading cache in Aptitude (ncurses-UI mode) is very slow and in general my system is very slow. In several days I discovered that DMA is turned off on my HDD (fsck sayed it while Debian booting). Please

Re: Problem to turn DMA on

2008-04-26 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 04:04:53PM -0300, Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > 2008/4/26 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=791 dma=on > Thanks for the reply, Chris, but it didn't work. > Any other ideas? give a loo

Re: Problem to turn DMA on

2008-04-26 Thread David Baron
OK. Let's get simple first: Check the bootup options--I mean boot, hit DEL and get the BIOS setups. There is a "master DMA" somewhere, chipset options? Make sure that is "enabled". Then check the installed peripherals or such. There would be a PIO mode and DMA setting

Re: Problem to turn DMA on

2008-04-26 Thread Rafael Fontenelle
2008/4/26 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 03:00:14AM -0300, Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and 2.6.21. > > It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm tr

Re: Problem to turn DMA on

2008-04-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 03:00:14AM -0300, Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > Hi all. > > I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and 2.6.21. > It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it is > not working. > > The comman

Re: Problem to turn DMA on

2008-04-24 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 24 April 2008 20:04:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and > > 2.6.21. > > > > It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it > > is not working. > > &

Re: Problem to turn DMA on

2008-04-24 Thread Rafael Fontenelle
2008/4/23, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi all. > > > > I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and > 2.6.21. > > It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it > is > > not work

Re: Problem to turn DMA on

2008-04-23 Thread David Baron
> Hi all. > > I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and 2.6.21. > It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it is > not working. > > The command I run and its output are: > > # hdparm -qc3 -qm16 -qd1 -qX66 -qS120

Problem to turn DMA on

2008-04-22 Thread Rafael Fontenelle
Hi all. I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and 2.6.21. It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it is not working. The command I run and its output are: # hdparm -qc3 -qm16 -qd1 -qX66 -qS120 /dev/hda HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operatio

Re: Enabling DMA with new MB (repost)

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
hz PIII slot-1 CPU (I was running my old 500mhz PIII and 575). > > Went through all the BIOS setups. A master-DMA can be enabled but the DMA on > the IDEs seems unavailable. Have it all "auto" -- BIOS choices for the IDEs > are "auto", p0, p1, p2 , p3, p4 and udma &qu

Enabling DMA with new MB (solved)

2008-04-09 Thread David Baron
>After my old far-eastern MB died, replaced with an "aopen" MB with a >somewhat >faster 600mhz PIII slot-1 CPU (I was running my old 500mhz PIII and 575). >Went through all the BIOS setups. A master-DMA can be enabled but the DMA on >the IDEs seems unavailable. H

Re: Enabling DMA with new MB (repost)

2008-04-08 Thread David Baron
th an "aopen" MB with > > a somewhat > > faster 600mhz PIII slot-1 CPU (I was running my old 500mhz PIII and > > 575). > > > > Went through all the BIOS setups. A master-DMA can be enabled but > > the DMA on > > the IDEs seems unavailable. Have it all

Re: Enabling DMA with new MB (repost)

2008-04-07 Thread Bob Cox
P_IDE: port 0x0170 already claimed by ide1 > VP_IDE: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS) > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' Sorry. I had hoped that we would see something like: NFORCE2: IDE controller (0x10de:0x0065 rev 0xa2) at PCI slot :00:09.0 ide0: BM-DMA at 0

Re: Enabling DMA with new MB (repost)

2008-04-07 Thread David Baron
On Monday 07 April 2008 17:42:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ~$ dmesg | grep IDE > > Could you try that again as dmesg | grep -i IDE please? > > (There may well be some lower case 'ide' info) FIrst reply was cut off. Here is the whole thing: ~$ dmesg | grep -i IDE BIOS-provided physical RAM map

Re: Enabling DMA with new MB (repost)

2008-04-07 Thread David Baron
On Monday 07 April 2008 17:42:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ~$ dmesg | grep IDE > > Could you try that again as dmesg | grep -i IDE please? > > (There may well be some lower case 'ide' info) ~$ dmesg | grep -i IDE BIOS-provided physical RAM map: CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0387f9ff 0

Re: Enabling DMA with new MB (repost)

2008-04-07 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
nt through all the BIOS setups. A master-DMA can be enabled but the DMA on the IDEs seems unavailable. Have it all "auto" -- BIOS choices for the IDEs are "auto", p0, p1, p2 , p3, p4 and udma "auto" or disabled. Hdparm will not allow -d1 either. Other info:

Re: Enabling DMA with new MB (repost)

2008-04-07 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 16:25:58 +0300, David Baron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ~$ dmesg | grep IDE Could you try that again as dmesg | grep -i IDE please? (There may well be some lower case 'ide' info) -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. signature.asc Description: Digital signat

Enabling DMA with new MB (repost)

2008-04-07 Thread David Baron
setups. A master-DMA can be enabled but the DMA on the IDEs seems unavailable. Have it all "auto" -- BIOS choices for the IDEs are "auto", p0, p1, p2 , p3, p4 and udma "auto" or disabled. Hdparm will not allow -d1 either. Other info: ~$ dmesg | grep DMA6b (rev 12)

Enabling DMA with new MB

2008-04-02 Thread David Baron
After my old far-eastern MB died, replaced with an "aopen" MB with a somewhat faster 600mhz PIII slot-1 CPU (I was running my old 500mhz PIII and 575). Went through all the BIOS setups. A master-DMA can be enabled but the DMA on the IDEs seems unavailable. Have it all "auto&q

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-27 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Baron wrote: > > Can also be the power supply! I had to (temporarily) disconnect one of the CD > drives to reduce the load. Not a single WD click-clack or DMA timeout since. Second

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-27 Thread David Baron
ing. ;-) Can also be the power supply! I had to (temporarily) disconnect one of the CD drives to reduce the load. Not a single WD click-clack or DMA timeout since.

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-27 Thread Shams Fantar
Guido Heumann wrote: Shams Fantar schrieb: I think that the hard disk really has a hardware problem. I'm going to change it. Subject closed. ;-) Thank you for your help. Regards, Another thing you could try before replacing the harddrive is replacing the IDE cable. I once had stran

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-27 Thread Guido Heumann
Shams Fantar schrieb: > I think that the hard disk really has a hardware problem. I'm going to > change it. > > Subject closed. ;-) > > Thank you for your help. > > Regards, > Another thing you could try before replacing the harddrive is replacing the IDE cable. I once had strange disk error m

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:50:06 +0200 Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think that the hard disk really has a hardware problem. I'm going to > change it. > Let us know how it goes. Cheers Frank -- Change the world one loan at a time - visit Kiva.org to find out how

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-26 Thread Shams Fantar
I think that the hard disk really has a hardware problem. I'm going to change it. Subject closed. ;-) Thank you for your help. Regards, -- Shams Fantar (http://snurf.info) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-26 Thread Shams Fantar
u think about it after some tests ? What do I think about what? I have already said it appears to be a minor bug somewhereunless of course you are running hdparm and setting DMA with it. There is always the same problem, even if the DMA option is activated via "hdpa

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Frank McCormick
have still the problem. > > What do you think about it after some tests ? What do I think about what? I have already said it appears to be a minor bug somewhereunless of course you are running hdparm and setting DMA with it. Cheers Frank -- Change the world one loan at a time

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Shams Fantar
Shams Fantar wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: As I recall: fsck -n -c -v /dev/hda1 Ok. After a "fsck", I have still the problem. What do you think about it after some tests ? -- Shams Fantar (http://snurf.info) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Shams Fantar
Frank McCormick wrote: As I recall: fsck -n -c -v /dev/hda1 Ok. I guess you know not to run it on a mounted partition. Yes, of course. :-) That way it won't do anything to the file system, I still am not sure whether the -c option means it won't add bad blocks to the list, bu

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Shams Fantar
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: I also think this is a bug.. but I don't understand why (if it's a bug) the problem happens suddenly! Maybe after an update ? I am not sure. I use debian etch and the version of the Linux kernel is : 2.6

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:28:02 +0200 Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > >I've been following this thread for quite a while - I have been > > getting DMA timeout errors on boot for about a year - i am also running > > SMART and

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > I also think this is a bug.. but I don't understand why (if it's a bug) > the problem happens suddenly! Maybe after an update ? I am not sure. > > I use debian etch and the version of the Linux kernel is : 2.6.18-4-486. > I still

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Shams Fantar
Frank McCormick wrote: I've been following this thread for quite a while - I have been getting DMA timeout errors on boot for about a year - i am also running SMART and every test I have done shows no problem. Booted with the install disk and run fschk so many time I have lost track. D

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-25 Thread Shams Fantar
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:12:28PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Try shutdown, disable DMA in the bios, and reboot into single-user mode (avoids mounting the drive rw). See if the messages show up in dmesg. Then reboot into normal mode and

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-24 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:45:27 + "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:12:28PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > >Try shutdown, disable DMA in the bios, and reboot into single-user > &

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:12:28PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >Try shutdown, disable DMA in the bios, and reboot into single-user mode > >(avoids mounting the drive rw). See if the messages show up in dmesg. > >Then reboot into normal mode a

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-24 Thread Shams Fantar
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hi Shams, Hi ! Try shutdown, disable DMA in the bios, and reboot into single-user mode (avoids mounting the drive rw). See if the messages show up in dmesg. Then reboot into normal mode and check syslog for that boot (ignore previous boots). There are the

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:12:33AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:49:34PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: > >>I ask me if this message is a problem or not : > >> > >>Aug 22 11:03:20 sithare kernel: hda: dma_timer_e

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-23 Thread Bob McGowan
if this message is a problem or not : Aug 22 11:03:20 sithare kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 Aug 22 11:03:20 sithare kernel: hda: DMA timeout error Aug 22 11:03:20 sithare kernel: hda: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Aug 22 11:03:20 sithare

Re: hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
me if this message is a problem or not : > > Aug 22 11:03:20 sithare kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 > Aug 22 11:03:20 sithare kernel: hda: DMA timeout error > Aug 22 11:03:20 sithare kernel: hda: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { > DriveReady SeekComplete DataR

hda: DMA timeout error, is it a problem ?

2007-08-22 Thread Shams Fantar
n I'm starting my desktop and it is starting on the kernel, here are the logs[1]. I ask me if this message is a problem or not : Aug 22 11:03:20 sithare kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 Aug 22 11:03:20 sithare kernel: hda: DMA timeout error Aug 22 11:03:20 sithare kernel:

Debian-Stable:Modules are not loaded randomly & hdparm:set-dma error

2007-05-29 Thread Gernot Pfanner
aren't loaded at startup). In addition to that, hdparm complains about setting dma on my disk (i.e. I get error messages of the kind "hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }"). To discuss things in more detail, let me start with the latter. Evidently, th

Re: 4 GB Compact Flash as HD - DMA problems

2007-03-24 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi! So: } Some other page shows that actually Ultra2 have DMA: } http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/speed-cards.html here there's not my CF :-(( and ooopps! } So, you might check if your CF is original sandisk: } http://martybugs.net/articles/fakesandisk.cgi i fear i have bought a FAKE Sa

Re: 4 GB Compact Flash as HD - DMA problems

2007-03-24 Thread Atis
-xx). Hmm, probably article is outdated or related to something else, I just checked my extreme3, box has some codes in dashed format, but they also don't match. I don't believe 20MB/s would be possible without DMA. Some other page shows that actually Ultra2 have DMA: http://www.hjreggel

Re: 4 GB Compact Flash as HD - DMA problems

2007-03-24 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi and thanks for your response. On 3/24/07, Atis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe not all CF cards support DMA, as it's only needed for really fast cards (Sandisk extreme3/extreme4). What manufacturer/model/speed does your card have? Googling a bit gave this

Re: 4 GB Compact Flash as HD - DMA problems

2007-03-24 Thread Atis
Ok, in this way system start, but i'd like to understand why i have this problem (it's hw problem? it's sw problem?...) and if it could be fixed. I think also dma is a good "feature" especially in a system like mini-itx that has slow processor . Anyone can help me? I

4 GB Compact Flash as HD - DMA problems

2007-03-23 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi all. I'm trying to use a 4 GB Compact Flash as Hard Disk in my mini-itx. Until now i used a laptop 2.5" HD with no problem. But, after a LONG net installation (access to CF is slower than normal hd), i had errors like this: localhost kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma stat

Re: hdb status error, dma disabled by itself on hda and hdb

2007-02-21 Thread H.S.
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: The last time I saw this it was the end of my disk. What does /usr/sbin/smartctl -a -d ata /dev/hdb say? Hugo Here it is what it says: ## ~# /usr/sbin/smartctl -s on -a -d ata /dev/hdb smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-li

Re: hdb status error, dma disabled by itself on hda and hdb

2007-02-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: hda: DMA disabled Feb 21 11:38:18 localhost kernel: hdb: DMA disabled Feb 21 11:38:18 localhost kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command I think I was doing "updatedb" at that time. I have just now re-enabl

hdb status error, dma disabled by itself on hda and hdb

2007-02-21 Thread H.S.
: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Feb 21 11:38:17 localhost kernel: hda: DMA disabled Feb 21 11:38:18 localhost kernel: hdb: DMA disabled Feb 21 11:38:18 localhost kernel: hdb: drive not ready for command I think I was doing "updatedb" at that time. I have just now re-enabled dma on the

Re: Kernel error: DMA write timed out

2006-11-17 Thread Mertens Bram
On 2006-11-17, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > On 11/14/06, Mertens Bram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Perhaps you can test this as well? > > I don't have printer or other attached via parport or USB. This > message has repeated while 10 seconds in syslog. I have rebooted more > times my machine, but i

Re: Kernel error: DMA write timed out

2006-11-17 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 11/14/06, Mertens Bram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps you can test this as well? I don't have printer or other attached via parport or USB. This message has repeated while 10 seconds in syslog. I have rebooted more times my machine, but it do not change. -- Openclose.it - Idee per il

Re: Kernel error: DMA write timed out

2006-11-17 Thread Mertens Bram
On 2006-11-17, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > > >> kernel: DMA write timed out > > > > >> kernel: parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio [...] > > > that message is related to parallel port, not to SATA disk. > > > At lea

Re: Kernel error: DMA write timed out

2006-11-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > > >> kernel: DMA write timed out > > > >> kernel: parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio > > > >> > > > >> prometeo:/var/log# uname -a > > > >> Linux prometeo 2.6.8-3-686-smp #1 SMP Thu Sep 7 04:

Re: Kernel error: DMA write timed out

2006-11-14 Thread Mertens Bram
On 2006-11-12, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 11/2/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > > >>> From some days, my syslog overflows these messages: > > >> > > >> kernel: DMA

Re: Kernel error: DMA write timed out

2006-11-12 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On 11/2/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > >>> From some days, my syslog overflows these messages: > >> > >> kernel: DMA write timed out > >> kernel: parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_bloc

Re: Kernel error: DMA write timed out

2006-11-10 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
On 11/2/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrea Ganduglia wrote: >> From some days, my syslog overflows these messages: > > kernel: DMA write timed out > kernel: parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio > > prometeo:/var/log# uname -a > Lin

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