Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 68624
(IDE VIA)Unable to rip audio CD from VIA controller-attached drive
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020708 Description of problem: System board is Abit VP6 with VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset. Board also has HighPoint HPT370 IDE RAID controller. Because of problems with VIA and HighPoint IDE controllers (HPT370 doesn't seem to like my Maxtor drive), my hard drives are attached to a Promise Ultra100 (20267) adapter. This gives me the following configuration: VIA IDE: /dev/hda (ATAPI CD-ROM) /dev/hdc (ATAPI CD-RW) Promise Ultra100: /dev/hde (30GB Western Digital HDD) /dev/hdg (8GB Maxtor HDD) HighPoint HPT370: (disabled in BIOS) This configuration seems to work for everything except ripping audio CDs. Using either cdda2wav or cdparanoia to rip from /dev/hda or /dev/hdc (or /dev/scd0 or /dev/scd1 with IDE-SCSI) causes lost interrupts and IDE resets. (The exact error that appears on the console varies depending on whether IDE-SCSI is used or not, but the lost interrupts are always in the syslog.) I enabled the HighPoint controller in the BIOS and moved the CD-ROM drive to it. (I now have /dev/hda = CD-RW, /dev/hde = 30GB HDD, /dev/hdg = 8GB HDD, and /dev/hdi = CD-ROM.) I can now rip audio tracks from the CD-ROM drive (/dev/hdi or /dev/scd1) without problems. Unlike the hard disk-related problems with VIA controllers that appeared early in the 2.4.x kernel series, this problem occurs with either (U)DMA or PIO. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attach CD-ROM (or CD-RW) drive to VIA IDE controller. 2. Try to rip an audio track with cdda2wav or cdparanoia. 3. Actual Results: Lost interrupts, ATAPI resets, etc. Ripping never gets anywhere. Expected Results: cdda2wav or cdparanoia should be able to rip audio tracks from CDDA-capable drives. Additional info:
Should work with errata kernel - does it ?
I do not have Red Hat 7.3 installed anymore, but I can reproduce this behavior on Red Hat 9 with kernel 2.4.20-8smp. (2.4.20-18.9smp produces a slightly different problem; see below.) I do have to disconnect a drive in order to reproduce the behavior, however. At some point I discovered that the following configuration eliminates the problem: VIA VT82C686B: ide0: hda: WDC WD300AB-00BPA1 (30GB HDD) hdb: (none) ide1: hdc: CW038D ATAPI CD-R/RW hdd: CREATIVE CD5233E-N (CD-ROM) Maxtor PDC20269: ide2: hde: WDC WD1800JB-00DUA0 (180GB HDD) hdf: (none) ide3: hdg: WDC WD1200BB-00CAA1 (120GB HDD) hdh: (none) Maxtor PDC20269: ide4: hdi: Maxtor 4G120J6 (120GB HDD) hdj: (none) ide5: hdk: Maxtor 4G120J6 (120GB HDD) hdl: (none) With the above configuration I can rip audio tracks from either hdc (scd0) or hdd (scd1). If I disconnect hda, boot kernel 2.4.20-8smp, and try to rip a track from hdc (scd0), the lost interrupts reappear. Ripping from hdd (scd1) still works, even when hda is disconnected. Behavior with kernel 2.4.20-18.9smp is similar, except that I get a kernel panic instead of the lost interrupt messages. The kernel panic is preceded by the message, "kernel BUG at ide-iops.c:1262". I can provide the rest of the gory details if desired. The key bit of weirdness, from my point of view, is that hdc works just fine if a HDD is connected as hda. I hope that the above is clear.
Bizarre but helpful. hda and b interact, and c and d interact but not in theory a and (c or d). I'm not sure what to make of it just yet but will be digging deeper into via again soon Marked the bug Red Hat 9 as its still present
FYI, I get the exact same behavior with 2.6.0-0.test1.1.26, including the apparent interaction between hda and hdc.
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