From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: James Finnie <jf1@IMERGE.co.uk>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IDE Hard disk geometry problem in 2.4.19 / 2.4.20pre7
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:18:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D8B2E51.7040108@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0D45ABB3F45D5118BBC00508BC292DB9D4208@imgserv04>
James Finnie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a large number of IDE hard disks here where I work. Since moving to
> 2.4.19 from 2.4.17, several of these disks have stopped working, resulting
> in a kernel panic after the drive has declared itself to have 0 cylinders!
> All the disks that have broken are the following:
>
> Seagate 80GB U6 ST380020ACE with Firmware version 4.65
>
> We have lots of these same drives, with FW v 3.34, that all work fine. I do
> not have a single drive with the 4.65 firmware working.
>
> My problem is that these drives used to work fine, with 2.4.17. They are
> not obsolete hardware, I think they are all less than 6 months old.
>
> I have seen this on CS5530 with the standard kernel PCI IDE, and on SIS630
> with the SIS Kernel IDE driver.
>
> Setting ide=nodma makes no difference.
>
> Here is an excerpt from the kernel console booting:
>
>
> ....
> hda: ST380020ACE, ATA DISK drive
> ....
> hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> hda: setmax_ext LBA 1, native 0
> hda: 0 sectors (0 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS 0/255/63, (U)DMA
> ....
> hda2: bad access: block=2, count=2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 (hda), sector 2
> EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
> hda2: bad access: block=2, count=2
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02 (hda), sector 2
> EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02
>
>
> Is this a result of all the new IDE stuff that went in in 2.4.19???
"All the new IDE stuff" hasn't really hit 2.4.x yet...
Do you have CONFIG_IDEDISK_STROKE set? If yes, do things start working
if you disable it?
Can you post the other IDE options you have set in your kernel config?
Jeff
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2002-09-20 14:04 James Finnie
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2002-09-20 14:53 James Finnie
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