HDD DMA error and system hangs - FC3.

[VJ]

Hi,

   My PC suffers from HDD dma problem almost everyday. Motherboard is Gigabyte GA7DXR, HDD is Seagate ST3160023A.

Output of lspci is:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 13)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
00:10.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20265 (FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100) (rev 02)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF/SG AGP
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 05)


This is a portion of my logwatch mail message (i can provied the /var/log/messages as well if needed). 

   Buffer I/O error on device hdh4, ...:  10 Time(s)
   RPC: error 5 connecting to ...:  1 Time(s)
   end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector...:  468 Time(s)
   hdh: DMA timeout error...:  2 Time(s)
   hdh: dma timeout error: status=0x00 { }...:  1 Time(s)
   hdh: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { B...:  1 Time(s)
   hdh: read_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStat...:  4 Time(s)
   hdh: read_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }...:  4 Time(s)
   ide3: reset: master: error (0x00?)...:  2 Time(s)
   lost page write due to I/O error on hdh4...:  10 Time(s)

And a lot of following messages

Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071628 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071636 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071644 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071652 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071660 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071668 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071676 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071684 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071692 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071700 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071708 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071716 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071724 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071732 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071740 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071748 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071756 
Nov 26 04:07:23 end_request: I/O error, dev hdh, sector 13071764 


I am running kernel "2.6.9-1.681_FC3" with "noapic nolapic acpi=off".


I ran Segate's own Seagate Tools for surface scan - No problem found.
I ran smartctl -t long /dev/hdh for SMART extensive test. No problems there either.

Any ideas???

Regards from

VJ
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