2.4.19-pre10 + Promise ATA100 tx2 ver 2.20
Hi all,
probably was already discussed (I hope not).
I get a really bad freeze when there's heavy writing over the 2 x 120GB WD disks. reading seems to be ok.
Since Im really not an expert in setting up IDE stuff the only things I can say is that there's no OOPS or error or nothing on the screen/log.
The freeze is reproducible both with 2.4.19-pre10 and 2.4.18.
In my config I have tryed with/without DMA/Promise special options and different combinations of them with no results.
I will be glad to offer more info and help if someone can kindly tell me how to debug this. If it's needed I can consider providing access to the machine.
Thanks
Fabio
Quoted 8 lines · Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi all,
probably was already discussed (I hope not).I get a really bad freeze when there's heavy writing over the 2 x 120GB WD disks.
reading seems to be ok.
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Since Im really not an expert in setting up IDE stuff the only things I can say is that
there's no OOPS or error or nothing on the screen/log.
The freeze is reproducible both with 2.4.19-pre10 and 2.4.18. In my config I have tryed with/without DMA/Promise special options and different combinations
Those have no effect in 2.4.19-pre10 and a few earlier pres; I don't remember the exact number.
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of them with no results.
I will be glad to offer more info and help if someone can kindly tell me how to debug
this. If it's needed I can consider providing access to the machine.
Does the machine recover from the freeze or do you have to reboot?
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Måns Rullgård [email protected]
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Does the machine recover from the freeze or do you have to reboot?
I have to hard reset the machine. Keyboard is unuseable at that stage. not even Magic sysreq works.
Fabio
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Quoted 1 line · Måns Rullgård
Does the machine recover from the freeze or do you have to reboot?
I have to hard reset the machine. Keyboard is unuseable at that stage. not even Magic sysreq works.
Are you running X? If yes, try reproducing the error while at a text console. It's possible some panic message will make it that far. Messages from a dying kernel will often not make it into the syslog.
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Are you running X? If yes, try reproducing the error while at a text console. It's possible some panic message will make it that far. Messages from a dying kernel will often not make it into the syslog.
Unfortunatly there's no X and no space to install it. That box should be my home (read: cheap) fileserver and runs just the minimum installation. It boots from a mostly full 500Mb hd and the idea was to use the rest for serving the other boxes.
Fabio
Re: [FREEZE] 2.4.19-pre10 + Promise ATA100 tx2 ver 2.20 (also with Ultra133-TX2)
In reply to Fabio Massimo Di NittoQuoted 2 lines · Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
The freeze is reproducible both with 2.4.19-pre10 and 2.4.18.
I have lockups when updatedb is running using ide-2.4.19-p7.all.convert.10 driver. Controller is Ultra133-TX2 (PDC20269) and mobo is ASUS A7M266 (AMD761 northbridge).
Memory has been checked to be OK. (48 hours of memtest86 3.0)
- Jussi Laako
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Re: [FREEZE] 2.4.19-pre10 + Promise ATA100 tx2 ver 2.20 (also with Ultra133-TX2)
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The freeze is reproducible both with 2.4.19-pre10 and 2.4.18.
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I have lockups when updatedb is running using ide-2.4.19-p7.all.convert.10 driver. Controller is Ultra133-TX2 (PDC20269) and mobo is ASUS A7M266 (AMD761 northbridge).
Memory has been checked to be OK. (48 hours of memtest86 3.0)
- Jussi Laako
Hi Jussi,
I found out that the problem was not the Promise controller
but a bug in the ALI chipset. Disabling the specific driver for that chipset (and DMA as well :/ ) gives me atleast the possibility to work. The bug for the ALI was discussed in another thread.
What makes me worried now is that 2/3 people are reporting a similar problem but using different chipsets. Can be a problem located somewhere else???? Dunno..... just a guess.
Fabio
Re: [FREEZE] 2.4.19-pre10 + Promise ATA100 tx2 ver 2.20 (also withUltra133-TX2)
Quoted 9 lines · Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
I found out that the problem was not the Promise controller
but a bug in the ALI chipset. Disabling the specific driver for that chipset (and DMA as well :/ ) gives me atleast the possibility to work. The bug for the ALI was discussed in another thread.What makes me worried now is that 2/3 people are reporting a similar problem but using different chipsets. Can be a problem located somewhere else???? Dunno..... just a guess.
In fact, I believe I found out that it's some weird driver interaction problem.
I have an IDE controller on VIA 686B southbridge on motherboard and PDC20269 as a PCI card. Now, I had Linux on a drive attached to the VIA controller without any problems. The drive became too small so I added the U133TX2 card and a new drive and installed Linux on that one. No matter which one of the installations is booted, the system will lock up if the VIA controller is in use at the same time as the PDC. However, system seems to be stable (short test priod though) if only the PDC controller is in use. (I left the old drives attached to the VIA controller unmounted.)
Does this problem sound similar to yours?
- Jussi Laako
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