I still get this error when the drive is on a Promise ATA/133 card.

I have the same setup in two separate machines, the results are the same 
with kernel 2.6.13, ideas?

Should I just get more ATA/100 cards and stop trying to figure out what
the bug is?  Keep in mind the Promise ATA/100 cards exhibit no such 
errors or problems as below. I have not received any responses concerning 
this bug.

According to: 
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0310.2/0693.html

Disabling PIO multiwrite fixes this problem, how do you do that?

As far as I can tell it is not enabled.

# hdparm -vi /dev/hde

/dev/hde:
  multcount    =  0 (off)
  IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
  unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
  using_dma    =  1 (on)
  keepsettings =  0 (off)
  readonly     =  0 (off)
  readahead    = 256 (on)
  geometry     = 48641/255/63, sectors = 781422768, start = 0

  Model=ST3400832A, FwRev=3.01, SerialNo=3NF04YQK
  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
  BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
  PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
  AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
  Drive conforms to: device does not report version:

  * signifies the current active mode

Another person states:

http://www.red-hat.com/archives/redhat-list/2000-June/msg00289.html

Hi
I've been gone for awhile but didn't see a response to this.
I solved the problem on one machine by changeing the
setting in bios from UDMA AUTO to DISABLED.
.I had another machine that periodically gave me this message
that just had the hard drive and mother board replaced by
the shop that built it because Seagate said that bios had
missed identified the drive geometry and had the head
sectors ect set wrong.
                            Linda


What is the real problem here?

Kernel .config attached for 2.6.13.

Please let me know, thanks.

Sep  2 20:48:05 p34 XFS mounting filesystem hde1
Sep  2 20:48:25 p34 hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x20
Sep  2 20:48:25 p34 hde: DMA timeout retry
Sep  2 20:48:25 p34 PDC202XX: Primary channel reset.
Sep  2 20:48:25 p34 hde: timeout waiting for DMA
Sep  2 20:48:25 p34 hde: status error: status=0x58 {
Sep  2 20:48:25 p34 DriveReady
Sep  2 20:48:25 p34 SeekComplete
Sep  2 20:48:25 p34 DataRequest
Sep  2 20:48:25 p34 }
Sep  2 20:48:25 p34 ide: failed opcode was:
Sep  2 20:48:25 p34 unknown
Sep  2 20:48:25 p34 hde: drive not ready for command
Sep  2 20:48:26 p34 hde: status timeout: status=0xd0 {
Sep  2 20:48:26 p34 Busy
Sep  2 20:48:26 p34 }
Sep  2 20:48:26 p34 ide: failed opcode was:
Sep  2 20:48:26 p34 unknown
Sep  2 20:48:26 p34 PDC202XX: Primary channel reset.
Sep  2 20:48:26 p34 hde: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT
Sep  2 20:48:26 p34 ide2: reset:
Sep  2 20:48:26 p34 success

lspci output:

0000:03:06.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 
20269 (rev 02)
0000:03:07.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 
20269 (rev 02)

$ cat /proc/interrupts
            CPU0       CPU1
   0:     219088          0    IO-APIC-edge  timer
   1:          9          0    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
   9:          0          0   IO-APIC-level  acpi
  14:       3201          0    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
  15:         12          0    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
  16:      13893          0   IO-APIC-level  eth0, libata, eth2
  17:        168          0   IO-APIC-level  eth1
  18:        555          0   IO-APIC-level  ide2
  19:        192          0   IO-APIC-level  ide4, ide5
NMI:          0          0
LOC:     218910     218906
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

$ gcc -v
gcc version 4.0.1 (Debian 4.0.1-2)

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 3
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 3409.857
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor 
ds_cpl cid xtpr
bogomips        : 6821.59

processor       : 1
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 3
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
stepping        : 4
cpu MHz         : 3409.857
cache size      : 1024 KB
physical id     : 0
siblings        : 2
core id         : 0
cpu cores       : 1
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 5
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe pni monitor 
ds_cpl cid xtpr
bogomips        : 6814.52