On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:59 am, Fabian Dost wrote:
I believe your motherboard may use the same chipset as mine (mine is an msi KT3 Ultra2, via kt333 chipset) The southbridge chip seems to be the key factor.
In my case the problem started as a lack of functionality (couldn't set DMA on my dvd), as long as both of my hard drives were on seperate cables. Once both drives were on the same cable I began having extremely frequent and random seeming crashes which eventually corrupted my reiserfs so badly (w/ my help due to hard resets) that it could not be repaired.
Are your drives properly configured as master and slave?
Yeah I made sure of that. All is well now (Since the kernel upgrade) I was just telling you what my experience had been as a lead in to the suggestion of a kernel upgrade. My machine actually worked fine for about a month with the stock SuSE kernel, (except for no DMA on the dvd) before my problems started. The problem seemed to make itself most evident based on which drives were on the same cable.
Search your /var/log/boot.msg for the following
<4>VP_IDE: Unknown VIA SouthBridge, contact Vojtech Pavlik
Actually my mainboard has the same chipset. /var/boot/log/messages says:
"<4>VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21 <4>VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 <4>VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later <6>VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:04.1 <4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio <4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio"
Seems not to be a problem in my case.
Great for your data (looks like you may have a diferent southbridge, mines a VIA vt8235), unfortunately I have no other suggestions for your DMA problem. 1 question Is your controller onboard or a pci card? AlsoI find the hdb:pio and hdd:pio references a bit suspicious, this may be something to look into.
What I don't understand is that dma does not work but dma and udma2 does.
I haven't a clue ;-(
PS, your reply came directly to me rather than the list so I replied directly as well.
Sorry about that.
Not a problem, just thought I'd mention it. See ya -- dh Don't shop at GoogleGear.com!