Secondary HD IRQ timeout under RH Linux 5.0 and Win95. Assistance urgantly required!!
Mr Scott Shanley
I recently installed a new 3.2GB HD on my Pentium-100 system with the
intent
to partition it 3 ways: 1 Gb for Linux and 2 approx 1 Gb for Win95
(Version A)
(partitioned using DOS 6.22 FDISK under Win95 Dual boot option. This was
recomended by person installing HD into machine).
After installing Red Hat linux 5.0 on one of the partitions, I started
Linux using the LINLOAD utility. During the boot up process, Linux does
a
partion check on all drives. The Original primary HD (1.04 Gb) passed
straight away but when checking the new HD partitions, the machine
stalls
for about 20-30seconds and pops up the message:
Partition check:
hda: hda1
hdc:hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequest }
hdc: disabled DMA
ide1: reset: success
After that the machine successfull finishes booting Linux.
A similar event takes place when Booting the machine into Win95 (located
on the original HD). Just as the GUI starts up, Win95 stalls for about
the
same amount of time just showing an hour glass. No error messages
pop-up
on screen and no devices are shown as stalled in the "System Properties"
section of the Control Panel. An examination of the BOOTLOG.TXT file
does not show anything out of the ordinary relating to the Secondary HD
or
Controller. After the stall, Win95 goes into User mode and the
Secondary
HD is accessible. The only other problem that took place with the
Secondary HD installed was when my ESS 688 PnP sound card's Dos Device
driver was loaded, I could not access any of the partitions on the
Secondary HD. This was only fixed by removing the Device driver from
CONFIG.SYS when booting into DOS 6.22.
Does anyone have any ideas what is the cause of the IRQ timeouts??
Could there be a problem with the Secondary IDE HD controller?
What steps should I take to fix the problem?
Any feedback on this topic would greatly appreciated.
Scott
PS: A full listing of /var/log/dmesg:
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fabf0
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb0b0
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb0e0
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 39.53 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30844k/32768k available (736k kernel code, 384k reserved, 804k
data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
moving IDT ... ... done
Linux version 2.0.32 (ro...@porky.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1
Wed Nov 19 00:46:45 EST 1997
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.07
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3000-0x3007
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x3008-0x300f
hda: M1614TA, 1040MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=528/64/63, DMA
hdb: , ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: FUJITSU MPB3032ATU, 3093MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=6704/15/63, DMA
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1
hdc:hdc: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
}
hdc: disabled DMA
ide1: reset: success
[PTBL] [785/128/63] hdc1 < hdc5 hdc6 > hdc2 hdc3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 36284k swap-space (priority -1)