FC4 - system crashes due to promise disk controller on Gigabyte 7DXR mobo

Vijay Gill vijay.s.gill at gmail.com
Sun Apr 2 16:21:10 UTC 2006


Hi,

My system crashes sometimes (but keeps on going for days at a stretch
if in good mood) and it does everytime because of problem with my
hard-disk controller. I have checked the hard-disk and there is no
problem with it.

Hard disk is: Seagate ST3200822A

Chipset is VIA686A

Problem creator is Promice Disk Controller: PDC20265.

If the information is not enough then I can provide more.

Thanks
Vijay Gill


The log of last crash is as following

Apr  2 17:00:13 dxr kernel: hde: DMA timeout error
Apr  2 17:00:13 dxr kernel: hde: dma timeout error: status=0x50 {
DriveReady SeekComplete }
Apr  2 17:00:13 dxr kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Apr  2 17:00:13 dxr kernel: hde: task_in_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Apr  2 17:00:13 dxr kernel: hde: task_in_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Apr  2 17:00:13 dxr kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Apr  2 17:00:13 dxr kernel: hde: task_in_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Apr  2 17:00:13 dxr kernel: hde: task_in_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Apr  2 17:00:13 dxr kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Apr  2 17:00:13 dxr kernel: hde: task_in_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Apr  2 17:00:13 dxr kernel: hde: task_in_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Apr  2 17:00:13 dxr kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel: hde: task_in_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel: hde: task_in_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel: Badness in pdc202xx_reset_host at
drivers/ide/pci/pdc202xx_old.c:504 (Not tainted)
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  [<c025d255>]
pdc202xx_reset_host+0x10c/0x14e     [<c025d2a9>]
pdc202xx_reset+0x12/0x2a
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  [<c02695d3>] do_reset1+0x10a/0x1d7    
[<c02670c8>] ide_error+0x45/0x7e
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  [<c026cad0>] task_in_intr+0x63/0xdb    
[<c026ca6d>] task_in_intr+0x0/0xdb
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  [<c026815a>] ide_intr+0x10c/0x161    
[<c013cd9d>] handle_IRQ_event+0x2e/0x5a
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  [<c013ce47>] __do_IRQ+0x7e/0xd7    
[<c0104f3a>] do_IRQ+0x4a/0x82
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  =======================
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  [<c01038ba>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel: Badness in pdc202xx_reset_host at
drivers/ide/pci/pdc202xx_old.c:506 (Not tainted)
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  [<c025d292>]
pdc202xx_reset_host+0x149/0x14e     [<c025d2a9>]
pdc202xx_reset+0x12/0x2a
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  [<c02695d3>] do_reset1+0x10a/0x1d7    
[<c02670c8>] ide_error+0x45/0x7e
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  [<c026cad0>] task_in_intr+0x63/0xdb    
[<c026ca6d>] task_in_intr+0x0/0xdb
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  [<c026815a>] ide_intr+0x10c/0x161    
[<c013cd9d>] handle_IRQ_event+0x2e/0x5a
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  [<c013ce47>] __do_IRQ+0x7e/0xd7    
[<c0104f3a>] do_IRQ+0x4a/0x82
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  =======================
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel:  [<c01038ba>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel: PDC202XX: Primary channel reset.
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel: PDC202XX: Secondary channel reset.
Apr  2 17:00:14 dxr kernel: ide2: reset: master: error (0x00?)
Apr  2 17:00:29 dxr ntpd[1995]: synchronized to 80.85.129.25, stratum 3
Apr  2 17:00:34 dxr kernel: hde: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Apr  2 17:00:43 dxr shutdown: shutting down for system reboot
Apr  2 17:00:44 dxr kernel: hde: DMA timeout error
Apr  2 17:00:44 dxr kernel: hde: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Apr  2 17:00:44 dxr kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Apr  2 17:00:44 dxr kernel: hde: DMA disabled
Apr  2 17:00:44 dxr kernel: PDC202XX: Primary channel reset.
Apr  2 17:00:44 dxr kernel: PDC202XX: Secondary channel reset.
Apr  2 17:00:44 dxr kernel: ide2: reset: master: error (0x00?)
Apr  2 17:00:44 dxr kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 1012095
Apr  2 17:00:44 dxr kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 50033775




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