Strange IDE going-ons in 2.3.41

[Joerg Stroettchen]

Luca Lizzeri wrote:

> I had some IDE resets on my /home partition on /dev/hdc3. After backing
> up,
> I restarted having disabled the loading of VMWare modules, I unmounted
> /home
> and ran e2fsck on it, and had the following output:
>
> $ e2fsck -f /dev/hdc3
>
> e2fsck 1.17, 26-Oct-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Error reading block 524292 (Attempt to read block from filesystem
> resulted in
> short read) while doing inode scan.  Ignore error<y>?
>
> Responding yes resulted in the same question for each successive block.
> This
> will repeat reliably with 2.3.41.
>
> Restarting with 2.2.15pre4 presented none of this problems.
>
> I don't have any < 2.3.41 handy. Let me know if I have to unpatch and
> retest.
>
> The board is a Tyan Trinity with the VIA chipset. Relevant dmesg output
> is
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
> VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> VT 82C597 Apollo VP3 Chipset Core ATA-33
> Split FIFO Configuration:  8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
>                            8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
>      ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
>      ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
>
> hdc: ST38410A, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: ST38410A, 8223MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=16708/16/63, UDMA
>
> The partitions on /dev/hdc are:
>
> Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16708 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdc1             1      4162   2097616+  83  Linux
> /dev/hdc2          4163      4423    131544   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hdc3          4424     16708   6191640   83  Linux
>
> Need any more diagnostics ?
>
> Thanks
>         Luca Lizzeri
>
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mmhh...

i had very similar problems with e2fsck-1.1.8:

e2fsck-1.18 failed to check one single partition (hda3). I finally found that
the problems occurred when

1. during boot no zip-disk was in my zip-drive (hdb)

and

2. the partition which was checked was > 2 GB

my recent solution is to insert a zip-floppy into hdb before turning power on



joerg


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