Bug 54742

Summary: IDE driver failure
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Tyler Dunlap <dunlap>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.1   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description Tyler Dunlap 2001-10-17 17:21:40 UTC 
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Description of problem:
RedHat 7.1 install to the IDE drive appeared to be successful.  Following 
the install the system was rebooted, kernel startup errors are 
displayed and the system hangs.  The last messages on the console are:

Freeing unused kernel memory: 244k freed
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
hda: irq timeout: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error 
}
hda: irq timeout: error=0x84 {DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14

Now the system is hung - no response to keyboard input

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Power on system
2.Watch it fail
3.
	

Actual Results:  See console errors reported in description - it's dead

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Additional info
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2001-10-17 17:23:39 UTC 
Could you try adding "ide=nodma" to the lilo prompt ?
(eg type ctrl-x to go to the text mode lilo screen, then type "linux ide=nodma")
Comment 2 Tyler Dunlap 2001-10-17 20:14:51 UTC 
OK - works great - that was easy 
Thanks