Bug 71545

Summary: KT333 / VT8233A IDE Errors
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Seth Bardash <seth>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 7.3CC: jskov, pawsa, seth
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Description Seth Bardash 2002-08-14 23:37:17 UTC
Description of Problem: IDE driver fails to recognize UDMA133 controller and 
gives muliple errors of:

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
............

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.18-5


How Reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install ISO 7.3 (2.4.18-3 kernel does not recognize IDE controller)
2. upgrade to 2.4.18-5 via up2date,
3. reboot -> 2.4.18-5 kernel

Actual Results: Systems boots but gets numerous error messages as listed above


Expected Results: Should come up and run UDMA-133 disks without errors

Additional Information:

Running Gigabyte GA-7VRXP motherboard with AMD XP2100+, 1 GB DRAM, 40 GB Maxtor 
UDMA-133 disk, CDROM, Floppy, ATI Xpert 98 Graphics card, Netgear FA310TX 2nd 
ethernet NIC.

Fixed the problem by using the patch at 
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/qralston/dev/. 

This works and produces an RPM that is installable to fix the problem. Redhat 
needs to add these changes to the next release to handle this issue.

Comment 1 Pawel Salek 2002-08-19 11:45:04 UTC
I would like to confirm this: I see similar problem with my Asus A7V333
motheboard. Unfortunately, I have learnt it the hard way: most of the data on
the hard disk was lost.

Comment 2 Pawel Salek 2002-08-24 16:35:26 UTC
This is still not fixed in 2.4.18-10.

Comment 3 baulv 2002-08-24 16:51:50 UTC
see the same bug reported as #67366.
The drive giving the error is also a ATA133  MAXTOR_6L040J2 on a ASUS_A7V333 mobo.
http://www.maxtor.com/en/documentation/data_sheets/diamondmax_D740X_datasheet.pdf

Comment 4 Need Real Name 2002-08-26 20:34:23 UTC
I have the same problem, Asus A7V333 motherboard, 80GB WD. Very annoying.

Arjan, are you aware of James Ralston's fix here?

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/qralston/dev/

I'd love to see this fixed for RHL 8.0

Thanks,
Jesper

Comment 5 Need Real Name 2002-08-26 20:35:35 UTC
Duh! The URL was already in the original comment. Never mind.


Comment 6 Seth Bardash 2002-10-05 00:13:30 UTC
I reported this originally on 8-14-02. Since then RH has released 2.4.18-10. 

At what point can we expect this to be fixed??? Do I need to downgrade from -10 
to -5 and add the patch to get this to work or can we expect 7.3 to properly 
support this soon??? 

There are quite a few motherboards out there with the VT8233A South Bridge.

Your product does not support this at this time. What is a reasonable date to 
expect this support?

Thanks

Seth

Comment 7 Seth Bardash 2002-10-08 23:08:55 UTC
OK. Update.... 2.4.18-10 now has a patch available from James Ralston @

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/qralston/dev/

Also: This has been fixed in Red Hat 8.0 and works correctly on the 
Gigabyte GA-7VRXP motherboard with XP2200+ processors, DDR266 CL 2.0 Memory,
and a maxtor 40GB ATA-133 7200 RPM disk connected as /dev/hda
(We have tested this on 5 units for 5 days without any problems)

It would have been nice to have been informed that 8.0 fully supports the
8233A in the 2.4.18-14 kernel.

Comment 8 Pawel Salek 2003-03-18 12:13:00 UTC
*** Bug 71223 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***