Re: Promise Controller

[Richard Fillion <rick@rhix.ods.org>]

hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
PDC202XX: Primary channel reset.
ide2: reset: success
 hde1 hde2

It still complains at boot.. but not it works atleast.  Thanks, i cant
believe that thats all it took.  18.9megs/sec off that disk..and guess
what?  It helped video playback a lot too.  I guess mplayer was waiting
a lot after the disk.  My highest quality mpeg (800x600) can run and i
get about 4/5 of the frames.  My favorite 400meg mpeg is playing
flawlessly right now.  DivX works very nicely too.  I cant believe how
much of a difference the harddrive controller could have made.  Even
thought i'd take a screenshot and put it on the net.

http://rhix.ods.org/ion2.png

So..back to the promise controller, should i be worried about those
error messages?  Can i ignore them safely?

Richard Fillion
rick@rhix.ods.org

On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 01:39:50AM -0500, Chris Davis wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 09:01:31PM -0600, Richard Fillion wrote:
> > > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
> > > ide2 at 0x8410-0x8417, 0x8422 on irq 44
> > > blk: queue fffffc0000658080, no I/O memory limit.
> > > hdf: 117231408 sectors (60022MB) w/ 2048KiB cache, CHS 116301/16/63
> > > UDMA(100)
> 
> > >    hdf: hdf: dma_intr: status 0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
> > >    hdf: dma_intr: error 0x84 {DriveStatus Error Bad CRC}
> > > 
> > > And then it just sits there...  
> > 
> > Is the PROMISE card in a 32-bit or 64-bit slot?
> > 
> > If the latter, put it in the former and try again. There are known
> > DMA problems on PWS when using nthe 64-bit slots.
> 
> I had a similar problem with my promise cards (non-alpha system, but
> possibly useful), where if i had a slave drive, but no master drive, the
> drive would give me these errors. Moving the lone slave drive to the
> master spot fixed my problems and my promise card because stable.
> 
> c