Description of Problem: Installer hangs when installing packages with first error being "hda: dma_intr: status=0x51" and then "hda: dma_intr: status: 0x84" as first two errors. Then a bunch of timout errors waiting on drive to come ready. How Reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from floppy "bootnet.img". 2. Perform FTP network install. 3. Will hang on one of the first few packages it installs as described above. Actual Results: I get the error messages and installation program hangs forever. Expected Results: A nice clean install with a friendly "Thank you for installing RedHat 7.1!" Additional Information: I have five identical machines and the bug appears on all of them, so a hardware problem is unlikely. Also, all machines CAN load RedHat 6.2 correctly. Problem appears in 7.1. Motherboard: FIC SD-11 CPU: Athlon 600 MHz (Slot A) Harddrive: Maxtor 8216002 (2 GB, 4465/15/63) Ethernet Card: Some cheap NE2000 PCI Video card: varied Some of the things I have tried: 1. Updated BIOS to version NC611 (the latest) 2. Since the problem appeared to be with DMA, I tried boot options like: "linux ide=nodma" "linux hda=nodma ide=nodma" "linux hda=nodma ide=nodema floppy=nodma" I thought it strange that it still gave the dma error even though I had these kernel options specified. 3. Disabling all I could think to in the BIOS. Unfortunately I could not find a switch to disable DMA. This bug report is similar to others I have found regarding DMA errors but theirs did not seem as severe, as they were still able to install.
Changing component to the kernel.
Any idea what chipset this is ? And are the IDE disks connected to the chipset directly or to some raid or otherwise special chip ?
Some more information. 1. I went back and tried RH 6.1 and also encountered disk read/write errors on one of the two systems I am working through this problem with. So likelihood that his is hardware problem and not software bug has gone way up. 2. Chipset is AMD 751 North bridge and VIA 686A ("Super South") for South bridge. 3. Had a typo on the drive type. It is a Maxtor 82160D2. 4. There is a lot of information at http://www.fic.com.tw/techsupport/faq/faqs01SD11.htm on this motherboard with lots of comments about UDMA 66 problems with Maxtor drives (which I have). 5. I have five computers equipped with this motherboard and while pretty stable, they have not been nearly as stable as other computers in our little computing farm of 18 computers. So maybe I am now just uncovering a long standing problem with this motherboard/disk combination. I am suspecting this really isn't a RedHat 7.1 problem right now with the inability to load even RH 6.1 via bootnet.img. Thanks for your prompt attention. I will read up on the FIC SD11 hardware issues and see if I can debug it. If you want to leave the bug report open then I promise to report back, but I can understand if you want to close it. Thanks, Bill Faust
Not a bug. Definitely hardware problem with this motherboard (FIC SD11) and UDMA harddrives. It was an intermittant problem which led me to suspect RedHat 7.1. On three different computers I replaced existing Maxtor 82160D2 harddrive with non-UDMA drives: (QUANTUM BIGFOOT1280A on two and WDC AC11200L in the third), and the problem went away.