I was give a system with a D875PBZ Intel MB in it, it is a 2.8G system.
I am trying to get Fedora on it but either get a kernel panic or failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40). I have googled and found a few ides, none have helped.
I've: - updated the BIOS - set irqpoll - tried disabling the Intel SATA raid controller - ....
If I take my IDE drive out of the old system and only run IDE on the new system it boots and seems to work great. If I try to reinstall - as a test to see if there is a problem with just SATA - I get the same error - failed to set ....
My head hurts from all the banging and trying different options, this list is my last hope before I talk my self into purchasing a PCI SATA RAID controller.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Jamie Bohr wrote:
I was give a system with a D875PBZ Intel MB in it, it is a 2.8G system.
I am trying to get Fedora on it but either get a kernel panic or failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40). I have googled and found a few ides, none have helped.
I've:
- updated the BIOS
- set irqpoll
- tried disabling the Intel SATA raid controller
- ....
If I take my IDE drive out of the old system and only run IDE on the new system it boots and seems to work great. If I try to reinstall - as a test to see if there is a problem with just SATA - I get the same error - failed to set ....
My head hurts from all the banging and trying different options, this list is my last hope before I talk my self into purchasing a PCI SATA RAID controller.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
You were given this motherboard by a friend? It sounds to me the ide controller is working fine but you have a broken serial controller.
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:49:11 -0600 "Jamie Bohr" jamiebohr@gmail.com wrote:
I was give a system with a D875PBZ Intel MB in it, it is a 2.8G system.
I am trying to get Fedora on it but either get a kernel panic or failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40). I have googled and found a few ides, none have helped.
The shipped FC7 kernel has this problem with a few devices whose firmware turned out to be very fussy about things or only got polled setxfer correct. A new controller isn't likely to be different. Without more details on the actual device it fails to probe it is hard to guess beyond that
My sister in-law gave me the complete system (P4 2.8Gig, 160G PATA, DVD-writer and a CD-writer, dual-head Nvidia card , she was having problems with the systems just rebooting while it was being used. I moved my Linux HD from my 933Mhz system to this new system. I changed some BIOS setting and so far have not had any issues. I was able to acquire two SATA drives and wanted to try out the RAID ... that is when I went down this rat hole. I would still like to use the SATA drives .. but how.
Alan: Are you suggesting a new SATA PCI controller would not fix the problem even if I disable the one on the MB?
Information about the Mb can be found at http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bz/index.htm. I'm note sure what additional information you need but I would be glad to try anything. If I was to lose my current PATA drive I would have not way to reinstall Linux - Yuk!
Thank you, Jamie
On 8/19/07, Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:49:11 -0600 "Jamie Bohr" jamiebohr@gmail.com wrote:
I was give a system with a D875PBZ Intel MB in it, it is a 2.8G system.
I am trying to get Fedora on it but either get a kernel panic or failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40). I have googled and found a few ides, none have helped.
The shipped FC7 kernel has this problem with a few devices whose firmware turned out to be very fussy about things or only got polled setxfer correct. A new controller isn't likely to be different. Without more details on the actual device it fails to probe it is hard to guess beyond that
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 19:54 -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote:
she was having problems with the systems just rebooting while it was being used
Spontaneous reboots can be due to poor power supplies, and overheating components, to name just a couple of common causes.
I received a rather nice graphics card, gratis, for that reason. The fan had seized, the owner felt the cost of properly replacing the fan wasn't worth it. So he bought a new card, and gave me the old one. I just removed the old fan, aimed an ordinary fan at the card's heatsink, and it works nicely. Now, the whole card is cool. Before, just the graphics processor was cooled (and not much), the RAM, and other things, would roast.
Thank you for your reply. I think the rebooting issues was caused by Windows or a BIOS problem. I've had the system for over a month, it has been running 24x7 serving bit torrents, constantly (while loop) doing dd of each mount point to /dev/null all while coping files from my media server to a local hard drive. The system never missed a beat .... that said I still don't know how to install Linux from scratch w/o getting the failed to set xfer message.
FYI: All Linux distro's (Fedora, Ubunto, Knoppix, ...) I've tried have the same issue.
Thanks, Jamie
On 8/20/07, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 19:54 -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote:
she was having problems with the systems just rebooting while it was being used
Spontaneous reboots can be due to poor power supplies, and overheating components, to name just a couple of common causes.
I received a rather nice graphics card, gratis, for that reason. The fan had seized, the owner felt the cost of properly replacing the fan wasn't worth it. So he bought a new card, and gave me the old one. I just removed the old fan, aimed an ordinary fan at the card's heatsink, and it works nicely. Now, the whole card is cool. Before, just the graphics processor was cooled (and not much), the RAM, and other things, would roast.
-- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
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I'm looking at getting a new mother board ... the only one I can find is a P4I65G, http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=P4i65G, from ASRock. It is not as capable as my current MB but my current MB SATA does not work so ...
I've googled this new MB but most of the sites are in a foreign language. Can someone advise on this MB, a simple good/bad will do.
Thanks, Jamie
On 8/20/07, Jamie Bohr jamiebohr@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for your reply. I think the rebooting issues was caused by Windows or a BIOS problem. I've had the system for over a month, it has been running 24x7 serving bit torrents, constantly (while loop) doing dd of each mount point to /dev/null all while coping files from my media server to a local hard drive. The system never missed a beat .... that said I still don't know how to install Linux from scratch w/o getting the failed to set xfer message.
FYI: All Linux distro's (Fedora, Ubunto, Knoppix, ...) I've tried have the same issue.
Thanks, Jamie
On 8/20/07, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 19:54 -0600, Jamie Bohr wrote:
she was having problems with the systems just rebooting while it was being used
Spontaneous reboots can be due to poor power supplies, and overheating components, to name just a couple of common causes.
I received a rather nice graphics card, gratis, for that reason. The fan had seized, the owner felt the cost of properly replacing the fan wasn't worth it. So he bought a new card, and gave me the old one. I just removed the old fan, aimed an ordinary fan at the card's heatsink, and it works nicely. Now, the whole card is cool. Before, just the graphics processor was cooled (and not much), the RAM, and other things, would roast.
-- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386
Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7.
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
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-- Jamie Bohr
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:52:58 -0600 "Jamie Bohr" jamiebohr@gmail.com wrote:
I'm looking at getting a new mother board ... the only one I can find is a P4I65G, http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=P4i65G, from ASRock. It is not as capable as my current MB but my current MB SATA does not work so ...
Your current mainboard SATA is what ?
Your current board has an utterly generic intel ICH controller. Its probably the best supported chip of all. You've not provided any kind of logs to do much more debug though.
The only IRQ routing issue Intel know about for that board was fixed in the rev 31 BIOS so as you've updated the BIOS that ought to be ok.
Having checked the bug db its also a known working configuration. Do you have SATA primary on, sata secondary off set in the BIOS and are you using legacy or advanced mode ?
Alan,
I tried many different combinations: legacy, advanced ... they all ended the same kernel panic or failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40). I could give more information but that would require a lot of effort, when the kernel dumps the screen scrolls many times. I was able to get the system up once when I had a IDE drive and SATA enabled, I still got the xfermode error. If I knew it would work I would keep trying but I don't trust the MB, the previous owner had issues with it.
- Jamie
On 8/29/07, Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
Your current board has an utterly generic intel ICH controller. Its probably the best supported chip of all. You've not provided any kind of logs to do much more debug though.
The only IRQ routing issue Intel know about for that board was fixed in the rev 31 BIOS so as you've updated the BIOS that ought to be ok.
Having checked the bug db its also a known working configuration. Do you have SATA primary on, sata secondary off set in the BIOS and are you using legacy or advanced mode ?
I could give more information but that would require a lot of effort, when the kernel dumps the screen scrolls many times. I was able to get the system up once when I had a IDE drive and SATA enabled, I still got the xfermode error. If I knew it would work I would keep trying but I don't trust the MB, the previous owner had issues with it.
Fair enough. Digital camera is oen good way to capture the problems but if the board is believed iffy its probably not worth it