A more complete log about my disk access errors

[Victor Tsaran <tsar@sylaba.poznan.pl>]

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Hello, listers!
I hope those of you who are experts in kernel bugs or interaction of kernel
with the hardware can help me with this. Since I installed Redhat 7.1 I
started to get the messages that RedHat cannot communicate through DMA with
my hard drives. I know for sure that my hard drives can communicate through
DMA, plus I was never getting similar messages before. Shon suggested for
me to check whether UltraDMA support was compiled into my kernel, but I,
firstly, do not understand why it should be included into kernel, and
secondly, why would Redhat ignore including UltraDMA support in the first
place.
Iam therefore attaching the complete log from the messages buffer ring
produced by the `dmesg' command.
Please let me know if you have any idea and where should I look for
possible solutions.
WIndows 2000 is very happy about my drives, whereas Linux complains about
them. However, after kernel disables DMA transfer mode, it goes pretty
fine. Please ignore any messages about SWAP...
Best and thanks in advance,
Vic

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Linux version 2.4.2-2 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-79)) #1 Sun Apr 8 20:41:30 EDT 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000000f0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000003efd000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000002000 @ 0000000003ffd000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 0000000003fff000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000ffff0000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 16381
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone DMA has max 32 cached pages.
zone(1): 12285 pages.
zone Normal has max 95 cached pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
zone HighMem has max 1 cached pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb4 BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz auto
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 350.800 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 699.59 BogoMIPS
Memory: 62020k/65524k available (1365k kernel code, 3116k reserved, 92k data, 236k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0720, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:04.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
block: queued sectors max/low 41096kB/13698kB, 128 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD205BA, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD101BA, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ASUS CD-S400/A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9300, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 40088160 sectors (20525 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2495/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: 19746720 sectors (10110 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=1229/255/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
 hda:hda: status error: status=0x01 { Error }
hda: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: drive not ready for command
 hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
 hdb:hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: DMA disabled
hdb: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
 hdb1 hdb2 hdb4
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 236k freed
Swap area shorter than signature indicates
Swap area shorter than signature indicates
Winbond Super-IO detection, now testing ports 3F0,370,250,4E,2E ...
Winbond chip at EFER=0x3f0 key=0x87 devid=97 devrev=73 oldid=ff
Winbond chip type 83977TF / SMSC 97w33x/97w34x
Winbond LPT Config: cr_30=01 60,61=0378 70=07 74=03, f0=3b
Winbond LPT Config: active=yes, io=0x0378 irq=7, dma=3
Winbond LPT Config: irqtype=pulsed low, high-Z, ECP fifo threshold=7
Winbond LPT Config: Port mode=ECP and EPP-1.9
SMSC Super-IO detection, now testing Ports 2F0, 370 ...
0x378: FIFO is 16 bytes
0x378: writeIntrThreshold is 9
0x378: readIntrThreshold is 9
0x378: PWord is 8 bits
0x378: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
0x378: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x48
0x378: ECP settings irq=7 dma=<none or set by other means>
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
ip_conntrack (511 buckets, 4088 max)
ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
  http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xb000, IRQ 11, 52:54:00:E4:E3:4C.
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x2, ISR=0x0, t=103.
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x2, ISR=0x0, t=303.
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x2, ISR=0x0, t=102.
hda: status error: status=0x01 { Error }
hda: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: drive not ready for command
hda: status error: status=0x01 { Error }
hda: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: drive not ready for command
hda: status error: status=0x01 { Error }
hda: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: drive not ready for command