, Mark White <mjw@celos.net>
From: Andy R <quadreverb@yahoo.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/24/2002 06:35:45
--- Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:03:34PM +0100, Mark White
> wrote:
> > I suspect this may be hardware, but somebody else
> may be able to
> > confirm or deny this. I've just changed a
> motherboard (to KR7A) and
>
> This is a VIA chipset, rigth ?
>
> > one of the disks no longer works right (apparently
> dies on write
> > operations). The disk used to work fine, but the
> previous motherboard
> > fried in the middle of the night, so it may have
> taken the disk with
> > it...
> >
> > What I get (when fsck tries to write) is:
> >
> > pciide0:1:0: lost interrupt
> > type: ata tc_bcount: 8192 tc_skip: 0
> > pciide0:1:0: bus-master DMA error: missing
> interrupr, status=0x20
> >
> > Then the following error sequence, repeated
> continuously:
> >
> > pciide0 channel 1: reset failed for drive 0
> > wd1a: DMA error writing fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd1 bn
> 79; cn 0 tn 1 sn 16),
> > retrying
> > pciide:0:1:0: not ready, st=0xd0, err=0x00
> > pciide0 channel 1: reset failed for drive 0
>
> Not good at all, it means the drive doesn't respond
> at all any more.
> I've seen this on one of my disks, it would come
> back up after a reboot,
> but a few day later it was definitively dead.
>
> But I would eventually try another controller first.
> VIA are known to
> have some problems ...
Yes, I had a similar problem with my VIA equipped
motherboard (and I don't think I'll buy a VIA again at
this point, I lost gigs of data).
Be sure that you get the latest bios update for your
motherboard, this may fix it.
Andy
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