I have four hard drives. Two of them work great with 2.5.59 and
2.4.18 (stock Psyche kernel, 2.4.18-19), two of them freeze the system
under 2.5.59. I have several questions; details on system
configuration follow the questions. I'd like to move to the 2.5
kernels if possible.
1) when I try to do a mkfs -j on hda and hdb under 2.5.59, it stops at
"102/895" . No errors printed to the console, it just stops. I
can hit Enter, but Control-C and such don't break out of it. The
system freezes completely in a minute or two. Rebooting freezes
because it can't kill the mkfs process. The geometry on hda and
hdb is different under 2.5.59, but that's not a problem with hde
(my main system disk).
2) under 2.4.18, hde is much slower than hda/hdb/hdf (timings attached
at end). The parameters don't seem wrong, and the disk has
performed well before - this is definitely new.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Ted
This is the dmesg output under 2.5.59 (slightly edited, grep "hd"):
ide0: MMIO-DMA at 0xe0827f00-0xe0827f07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: MMIO-DMA at 0xe0827f08-0xe0827f0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: probing with STATUS(0x50) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x7f)
hdb: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
hde: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive
hdf: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=232581/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=232581/16/63, UDMA(100)
hde: host protected area => 1
hde: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=238216/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdf: host protected area => 1
hdf: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63, UDMA(100)
and udner 2.4.18:
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-0xdc07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xdc08-0xdc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: probing with STATUS(0x50) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x7f)
hdb: WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
hde: Maxtor 6Y120L0, ATA DISK drive
hdf: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive
hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=232581/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=232581/16/63, UDMA(100)
hde: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=14946/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdf: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: [PTBL] [14593/255/63] hda1
hdb: [PTBL] [14593/255/63] hdb1
hde: hde1 hde2 hde3
hdf: hdf1
Timings (hdparm -t under 2.4.18):
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.39 seconds = 46.09 MB/sec
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.40 seconds = 45.83 MB/sec
/dev/hde:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 10.41 seconds = 6.15 MB/sec
/dev/hdf:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.65 seconds = 38.78 MB/sec
/dev/hda: (under 2.4.18, works)
multcount = 16 (on)
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 14593/255/63, sectors = 234441648, start = 0
/dev/hda: (under 2.5.59, does not work)
multcount = 0 (off)
IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 35973/16/63, sectors = 234441648, start = 0
/dev/hde (under 2.4.18, works but slow):
multcount = 0 (off)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 128 (on)
geometry = 14946/255/63, sectors = 240121728, start = 0
/dev/hde (under 2.5.59, works):
multcount = 0 (off)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 (on)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 256 (on)
geometry = 41608/16/63, sectors = 240121728, start = 0
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