Bug 185482

Summary:	DMA cannot be used for IDE on nforce 430 chipset
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	dijuremo <dijuremo>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	jbaron, jgarzik, klaas
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Description dijuremo 2006-03-15 02:38:50 UTC

Description of problem:
When using any of the released RHEL4 kernels including 2.6.9-34, dma cannot be
enabled on IDE drives connected to the nvidia controller on a motherboard with
the nforce 430 chipset. All IDE I/O is terribly ssssssllllllooooowwwwwwwww.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The OS was installed to drives connected to a 3ware SATA raid
controller. Two additional IDE hard drives are connected as hda and hdc and
mirrored through software raid for redundancy. Slowness is only related to the
IDE drives. I have not tested SATA drives plugged in directly into the
Motherboard and not to the 3ware card.

I am using the MSI K8NGM2-FID motherboard:

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8NGM2-FID&class=mb

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL4
2. dmesg shows:
ide0: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional.
ide1: Speed warnings UDMA 3/4/5 is not functional.
3. Trying to enable DMA with hdparm shows:
[root@roz ~]# hdparm -X69 -d1 /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
setting xfermode to 69 (UltraDMA mode5)
using_dma    =  0 (off)
4. hdparm -t reports buffered reads of 2MB/s with the hard drive not even
mounted or used

Current Solution
I downloaded, compiled and installed a 2.6.15.6 vanilla kernel on the machine.
DMA is enabled correctly and hpdarm -t shows buffered reads of ~57MB/s. The
machine is fast now. It would be nice if the appropriate patches can be added to
the production RHEL kernels to run the machine in production with a stock kernel.

Comment 2 klaas de zwart 2006-04-04 11:24:05 UTC

I have a similar problem, using Intel Corporation 6300ESB SATA Storage 
Controller, on 2.6.9-34.ELsmp
attempt to enable DMA using hdparm:
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted

Sata drive is extremely slow
/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:   12 MB in  3.14 seconds =   3.83 MB/sec

klaas

Comment 3 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 13:31:40 UTC

Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. 
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