Bug 72806
| Summary: | (IDE)Crash caused by hdd | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Steve Auerbach <steven.p.auerbach> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | lare, s.j.katzberg, steven.p.auerbach |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:39:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I have perhaps had similar problem with my just purchased Pentium IV with Intel board and 256 Meg. I had been running g77 programs on a 2.4 gig machine with RedHat 7.2 installed with no problems, also the fortran code runs fine on UNIX platforms and Cygwind Windows fortran. Problem: program compiles fine and starts running. It does a lot of disk searching, repetitively in the same file under the influence of variable data (matched filter). After a short while (compared to the data file and compared to the successful running on the other platforms) the hardrive goes unstable. The program crashes and just shuts down the terminal window. Processed data is fine up to the point of crash. This sound similar? I can't tell if the problems are related. I believe that the real diagnostic is the message "ide-scsi: Strange, packet command initiated yet DRQ isn't asserted.". Note that, for my machine, hdd is a CD/RW; it looks like hdd is a hard drive in your machine, in which case the issues are probably unrelated. I am having the exact same problem that the original poster is having. Mine is also a IDE/ATAPI CD-RW. This only started after upgrading to 8.0 (2.4.18-18.8) from 7.2 (2.4.9-31). It seems to start between 0400 and 0600 local time on random days. I don't even have to be using the CD-RW for it to happen. Sometimes I can go up to a week or more without an incident, while other times it will occur a couple times in a single day. Any updates on this? After trying several suggestions, the only successful workaround that I was able to come up with is to edit the grub.conf file to include two boots. (1) with CDROM support (hdc=ide-cd) and (2) with CD-RW support (hdc=ide-scsi). Fortunately, I do not need to burn CDs often. When I do, I am required to reboot to get CD-RW support and then boot back to CDROM only support. Since this problem did not exist in the 2.4.9 kernel series, it is only logical that the bug lies somewhere in the 2.4.18 series. Andrew Lare states that "Since this problem did not exist in the 2.4.9 kernel series, it is only logical that the bug lies somewhere in the 2.4.18 series." My notes from 3/15/02, around the time I first began to have this problem (on my first Linux boxe, not my current Linux box) show that I was using kernel 2.4.9-31 (result of uname -r). So, I believe the problem has been around for quite some time, and was not just introduced in the 2.4.18 kernel series. I might have found a solution to the problem....at least it works for me: cp /etc/sysconfig/harddisks /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdc In /etc/sysconfig/harddiskhdc, the following should appear: USE_DMA=0 EIDE_32BIT=1 Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/ |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.0.0-10; Linux) Description of problem: System crashes, apparently caused by the CD/RW. I find the following in /var/log/messages: legolas kernel: hdd: lost interrupt legolas kernel: ide-scsi: CoD != 0 in idescsi_pc_int legolas kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete legolas kernel: hdd: status error: status=0x00 { } legolas kernel: ide-scsi: Strange, packet command initiated yet DRQ isn't asserted. This is repeated thousands of times, then the machine crashes. Only way to recover is to cycle the power. Crash happens at random times, no pattern apparent to me... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Additional info: The Red Hat support folks suggested passing the following parameter to the kernel:ide1=nodma, but this does not solve the problem. They also suggested changing the IDE cable, but this had no effect.