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>Hi,
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>On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:54:56AM +0100, Patrick Ohnewein wrote:
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>> I am new to this list and hope that my mail is not OFF TOPIC. After
>> looking around for 2 months now, to find a solution, I will try it here now.
>>
>> Now the scenario: I bought a new cool dell laptop:
>> INSPIRON 8100, 512MB RAM, NVIDEA GeForce2Go 32MB, 30GB Hitachi hard disk
>> and a DVD. I bought it with WinME preinstalled, because it wasn't
>> possible to get it with linux nor without an OS.
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>I've had many reports of IDE data corruption on i8100 laptops. Does
>booting the kernel with the "ide=nodma" option improve things?
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>Cheers,
> Stephen
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I too have an inspiron 8100.
I've run into this same problem myself and had a massive crash as a result.
Both my Linux partitions and DOS partitions were hosed and I had to reinit
my disk and restore both Windows and Linux from backups.
What fun! :)
I did find that adding ide=nodma to my boot options in grub cleared up
the problem.
THANK YOU!!!!!
For debugging purposes, I have some further info to report:
1. The problem was reliably triggered by starting an Xwindows Session.
Here is the relevant section of /var/log/messages. This
pattern was repeated
every time I rebooted to runlevel 5 and logged in via xdm:
Feb 17 11:06:23 inspiron kernel: maestro3: Configuring ESS Maestro3(i)
found at IO 0xDC00 IRQ 5
Feb 17 11:06:23 inspiron kernel: maestro3: subvendor id: 0x00e61028
Feb 17 11:06:24 inspiron kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id:
0x8384:0x7609 (SigmaTel STAC9721/23)
Feb 17 11:06:24 inspiron modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-service-0-0
Feb 17 11:06:28 inspiron gnome-name-server[1334]: starting
Feb 17 11:06:28 inspiron gnome-name-server[1335]: starting
Feb 17 11:06:28 inspiron gnome-name-server[1334]: name server starting
Feb 17 11:06:28 inspiron kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.97
Feb 17 11:06:28 inspiron kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 {
DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
Feb 17 11:06:28 inspiron kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Feb 17 11:06:28 inspiron gnome-name-server[1335]: name server was
running on display, exiting
Feb 17 11:06:38 inspiron kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
Feb 17 11:06:38 inspiron kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported
ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
Feb 17 11:06:38 inspiron kernel: hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB
Cache, DMA
Feb 17 11:06:38 inspiron kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Feb 17 11:06:38 inspiron kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 {
DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
Feb 17 11:06:38 inspiron kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
I hope this helps find the source of the problem.
Steve Madere
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