Hello all,
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.
I shrinked the WinME partition to 3GB using parted and installed RH 7.2
as second OS. So I have ext3 in use, it was the default.
Here my partition layout:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 392 3148708+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 393 427 281137+ 84 OS/2 hidden C: drive
/dev/hda3 428 430 24097+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 431 3648 25848585 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 431 2215 14337981 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2216 3362 9213246 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3363 3489 1020096 82 Linux swap
The strange OS/2 hidden partition is for suspend2disk.
Here my mount points:
[root@inspiron root]# mount
/dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda5 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/win type vfat (rw)
I send you the hdparm informations, on the hdd I changed from udma5 to
udma4, suggested me on the dell-linux mailing list. It seams I have
lesser problems, but they persist.
[root@inspiron root]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=HITACHI_DK23CA-30, FwRev=00H0A0G1, SerialNo=11BPWF
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=36477, SectSize=579, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=58605120
IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:400,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3
*udma4 udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128)
Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 3 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3
ATA-4 ATA-5
[root@inspiron root]# hdparm -i /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Model=LG DVD-ROM DRN-8080B, FwRev=2.01, SerialNo=2001/08/20
Config={ Fixed Removeable DTR<=5Mbs DTR>10Mbs nonMagnetic }
RawCHS=0/0/0, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=0
(maybe): CurCHS=0/0/0, CurSects=0, LBA=yes, LBAsects=0
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 *mdma2
AdvancedPM=no
Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 13 : ATA-4
Now the logs about my problems, the fresh one from today ;)
Jan 23 10:02:22 inspiron kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
Jan 23 10:02:23 inspiron kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 {
DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
Jan 23 10:02:23 inspiron kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Jan 23 10:02:23 inspiron kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)):
ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #892807: rec_len is smaller than
minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
Jan 23 10:02:33 inspiron kernel: hda: timeout waiting for DMA
Jan 23 10:02:33 inspiron kernel: ide_dmaproc: chipset supported
ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
Jan 23 10:02:33 inspiron kernel: blk: queue c0343660, I/O limit 4095Mb
(mask 0xffffffff)
Jan 23 10:02:33 inspiron kernel: hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-RAM drive,
512kB Cache, DMA
Jan 23 10:02:33 inspiron kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Jan 23 10:02:33 inspiron kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 {
DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
Jan 23 10:02:33 inspiron kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Jan 23 10:02:33 inspiron kernel: hdb: packet command error: status=0x51
{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jan 23 10:02:33 inspiron kernel: hdb: packet command error: error=0x24
Jan 23 10:02:33 inspiron kernel: blk: queue c0343660, I/O limit 4095Mb
(mask 0xffffffff)
Jan 23 10:02:34 inspiron su(pam_unix)[924]: session closed for user root
Jan 23 10:02:34 inspiron kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)):
ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #892807: rec_len is smaller than
minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
Could someone of you say me what is wrong with my system, I really don't
know what to do. I am afraid dell will not care much about my problems,
because I use linux and I don't know if it's a linux problem or a
hardware problem. And if hardware related I would like to know, is it
the HDD or the controller or what else.
Please help
Patrick
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