On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:03:34PM +0100, Mark White wrote:
> I suspect this may be hardware, but somebody else may be able to
> confirm or deny this.  I've just changed a motherboard (to KR7A) and

This is a VIA chipset, rigth ?

> one of the disks no longer works right (apparently dies on write
> operations).  The disk used to work fine, but the previous motherboard
> fried in the middle of the night, so it may have taken the disk with
> it...
> 
> What I get (when fsck tries to write) is:
> 
>  pciide0:1:0: lost interrupt
>          type: ata tc_bcount: 8192 tc_skip: 0
>  pciide0:1:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupr, status=0x20
> 
> Then the following error sequence, repeated continuously:
> 
>  pciide0 channel 1: reset failed for drive 0
>  wd1a: DMA error writing fsbn 16 of 16-31 (wd1 bn 79; cn 0 tn 1 sn 16),
>          retrying
>  pciide:0:1:0: not ready, st=0xd0, err=0x00
>  pciide0 channel 1: reset failed for drive 0

Not good at all, it means the drive doesn't respond at all any more.
I've seen this on one of my disks, it would come back up after a reboot,
but a few day later it was definitively dead.

But I would eventually try another controller first. VIA are known to
have some problems ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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