Hello
With a GENERIC kernel on 2.0.2 also on a DS10, I got so many unterrupts
lost that the system was unusable ( hanging while mounting the root file
system )
I rebuilt a kernel starting from INSTALL that worked much better on this
box. However I am still stuck in PIO mode.
Manu




> Hi,
>
> I recently aquired a Compaq DS10L, and I've installed a new harddrive
> and put it to use as bulk builder.  However, I notice that there
> appears to be problems with the interrupts from the IDE controller.
> I've swapped out the old 40p cable with an 80p one, but that didn't
> make any difference, so I'm now running with PIO mode I/O to the IDE
> drive.
>
> I notice that it says
>
>   aceride0: primary channel interrupting at isa irq 14
>
> and
>
>   aceride0: secondary channel interrupting at isa irq 15
>
> during probing, but on first use, it says:
>
>   stray isa irq 15
>   stray isa irq 14
>   stray isa irq 14
>   stray isa irq 14
>   stray isa irq 14
>   stray isa irq 14; stopped logging
>
> Is this a software issue?  (I suspect it is...)
>
> Since it's currently doing bulk builds and I'm circa 900km away from
> the machine, it's a little inconvenient for me to try to debug this
> further right now, but it would be nice to have some hints so that I
> can try to get it into better shape sometime after I return to work
> just after New Year.
>
> Output from dmesg follows below.
>
> Best regards,
>
> - Håvard
>
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> NetBSD 2.1 (TURBOT) #1: Thu Dec 15 10:30:49 CET 2005
> 	he@turbot.urc.uninett.no:/usr/obj/sys/arch/alpha/compile/TURBOT
> COMPAQ AlphaServer DS10L 466 MHz, s/n ay01122910
> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> total memory = 1024 MB
> (2832 KB reserved for PROM, 1021 MB used by NetBSD)
> avail memory = 998 MB
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21264-4
> cpu0: Architecture extensions: 303<PAT,MVI,FIX,BWX>
> tsc0 at mainbus0: 21272 Core Logic Chipset, Cchip rev 0
> tsc0: 2 Dchips, 1 memory bus of 16 bytes
> tsc0: arrays present: 1024MB (split), 0MB, 0MB, 0MB, Dchip 0 rev 1
> tsp0 at tsc0
> pci0 at tsp0 bus 0
> pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
> sio0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: Acer Labs M1543 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0xc3)
> tlp0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0: DECchip 21143 Ethernet, pass 4.1
> tlp0: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 29
> tlp0: DEC, Ethernet address 08:00:2b:86:b8:2b
> tlp0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> tlp1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: DECchip 21143 Ethernet, pass 4.1
> tlp1: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 30
> tlp1: DEC, Ethernet address 08:00:2b:86:b8:57
> tlp1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> aceride0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0
> aceride0: Acer Labs M5229 UDMA IDE Controller (rev. 0xc1)
> aceride0: bus-master DMA support present
> aceride0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
> aceride0: primary channel interrupting at isa irq 14
> atabus0 at aceride0 channel 0
> aceride0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode
> aceride0: secondary channel interrupting at isa irq 15
> atabus1 at aceride0 channel 1
> isp0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0: QLogic 1020 Fast Wide SCSI HBA
> isp0: interrupting at dec 6600 irq 47
> scsibus0 at isp0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
> isa0 at sio0
> lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7
> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
> com0: console
> com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
> pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
> spkr0 at pcppi0
> isabeep0 at pcppi0
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
> mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70-0x71: mc146818 or compatible
> fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
> Kernelized RAIDframe activated
> scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
> stray isa irq 15
> stray isa irq 14
> stray isa irq 14
> stray isa irq 14
> stray isa irq 14
> stray isa irq 14; stopped logging
> wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <ST3200822A>
> wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing
> wd0: 186 GB, 387621 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 390721968
> sectors
> wd0: 32-bit data port
> wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
> wd0(aceride0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using
> DMA data transfers)
> atapibus0 at atabus1: 2 targets
> cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <CD-224E, , 9.5B> cdrom removable
> cd0: 32-bit data port
> cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
> cd0(aceride0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
> aceride0:0:0: lost interrupt
> 	type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
> aceride0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21
> wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 1
> wd0(aceride0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 1 (using DMA data
> transfers)
> wd0c: DMA error reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying
> stray isa irq 14
> aceride0:0:0: lost interrupt
> 	type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
> aceride0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21
> wd0: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 4
> wd0(aceride0:0:0): using PIO mode 4
> wd0c: DMA error reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying
> stray isa irq 14
> wd0: soft error (corrected)
> root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
> root file system type: ffs
>