[SOLVED] hdparm does not work

[Tux12Fun]

Hi,

I tryed to activate DMA for my Harddisk but hdparm does not do this.

(As root)
localhost xxx # hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
using_dma = 0 (off)
localhost xx #

The Harddisk is a Maxtor with 160 GB connected to a 80 Pin Cable, this shoud do DMA.

Coud it be that i deactivated a driver in my Kernel Config ?
And which option could it be ?


A view Logs
localhost xxx # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
00:09.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
00:09.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
00:09.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23)
00:11.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 23)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1)

dmesg
localhost thomas # dmesg
Linux version 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 (root@livecd) (gcc version 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)) #1 Mon Jan 14 22:27:55 Local time zone must be set--see zic manu
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000002fffc000 - 000000002ffff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000002ffff000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
767MB LOWMEM available.
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 196604) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 196604
HighMem 196604 -> 196604
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 196604
On node 0 totalpages: 196604
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 1503 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 191005 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI 2.3 present.
Using APIC driver default
ACPI: RSDP 000F5E60, 0014 (r0 ASUS )
ACPI: RSDT 2FFFC000, 0030 (r1 ASUS A7V333 42302E31 MSFT 31313031)
ACPI: FACP 2FFFC0B2, 0074 (r1 ASUS A7V333 42302E31 MSFT 31313031)
ACPI: DSDT 2FFFC126, 2143 (r1 ASUS A7V333 1000 MSFT 100000B)
ACPI: FACS 2FFFF000, 0040
ACPI: BOOT 2FFFC030, 0028 (r1 ASUS A7V333 42302E31 MSFT 31313031)
ACPI: APIC 2FFFC058, 005A (r1 ASUS A7V333 42302E31 MSFT 31313031)
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xe408
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:6 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 2, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl edge)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 30000000:cec00000)
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order. Total pages: 195069
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1
mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Detected 1532.941 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 774572k/786416k available (2290k kernel code, 11252k reserved, 1169k data, 208k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfffa7000 - 0xfffff000 ( 352 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xf0800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 239 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xefffc000 ( 767 MB)
.init : 0xc0464000 - 0xc0498000 ( 208 kB)
.data : 0xc033c8bd - 0xc0460e8c (1169 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc033c8bd (2290 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=22, HWalign=32, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3068.63 BogoMIPS (lpj=6137270)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000420 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+ stepping 02
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
Parsing all Control Methods:
Table [DSDT](id 0001) - 278 Objects with 41 Devices 99 Methods 10 Regions
tbxface-0598 [00] tb_load_namespace : ACPI Tables successfully acquired
evxfevnt-0091 [00] enable : Transition to ACPI mode successful
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1aa0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
evgpeblk-0956 [00] ev_create_gpe_block : GPE 00 to 0F [_GPE] 2 regs on int 0x9
evgpeblk-1052 [00] ev_initialize_gpe_bloc: Found 3 Wake, Enabled 0 Runtime GPEs in this block
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
Completing Region/Field/Buffer/Package initialization:................................
Initialized 4/10 Regions 0/0 Fields 17/17 Buffers 11/11 Packages (287 nodes)
Initializing Device/Processor/Thermal objects by executing _INI methods:
Executed 0 _INI methods requiring 0 _STA executions (examined 44 objects)
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 *12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 2.21 loaded.
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xf0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0x100000-0x2fffffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec000ff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xe400-0xe47f has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xe800-0xe81f has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: iomem range 0xfff80000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:02: iomem range 0xffb80000-0xffbfffff has been reserved
pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x290-0x291 has been reserved
pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x370-0x372 has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: d6000000-d7dfffff
PREFETCH window: d7f00000-dfffffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
Simple Boot Flag at 0x3a set to 0x1
Machine check exception polling timer started.
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
PCI: VIA PCI bridge detected. Disabling DAC.
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Linux agpgart interface v0.102
input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/virtual/input/input0
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/virtual/input/input1
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
00:0a: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
00:0b: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
loop: module loaded
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
8139cp 0000:00:0e.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
8139cp 0000:00:0e.0: Try the "8139too" driver instead.
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf0810000, 00:10:bf:55:28:38, IRQ 16
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Probing IDE interface ide0...
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
hda: Maxtor 6G160P0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD400AB-32CMB0, ATA DISK drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: LG CD-ROM CRD-8521B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
hdb: cache flushes not supported
hdb: hdb1
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.002.
Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.05
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.05
ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
usbmon: debugfs is not available
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.2[C] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ehci_hcd 0000:00:09.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:09.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:09.2: irq 16, io mem 0xd5800000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:09.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 0.95, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: irq 17, io base 0x0000d400
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:09.1[B] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.1: irq 18, io base 0x0000d000
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.2[D] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: irq 19, io base 0x0000b000
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.3[D] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: irq 19, io base 0x0000a800
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb 4-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
PNP: PS/2 appears to have AUX port disabled, if this is incorrect please boot with i8042.nopnp
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input2
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.2/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/input/input3
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:11.2-2
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Fri Jul 20 09:12:58 2007 UTC).
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ALSA device list:
#0: C-Media PCI CMI8738-MC6 (model 55) at 0xd800, irq 16
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 96.43.01 Wed Sep 5 19:12:23 PDT 2007
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 1052248k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1052248k
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1

Thank you for your help

[NeddySeagoon]

Tux12Fun,

Your kernel is configured incorrectly. You need the

[Tux12Fun]

Thank you for your quick help.

Now DMA is working.

[oldefortran]

With a Intel P35 chipset and SATA drives (running them in IDE, compatible mode), what should I select in my kernel?

lspci tells me
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)

[NeddySeagoon]

oldefortran,

If you run the drives in IDE compatible mode, you will hate the system as you cannot make DMA work that way.
They should have an AHCI mode too. I assume that you will dual boot with windows ?
If so get the AHCI driver for windows and switch them over in the BIOS.

In any case, switch them over for Linux. Then you need these settings but you withh want the AHCI driver, which is just above the SATA option mentioned in that post.
_________________
Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[oldefortran]

[NeddySeagoon]

oldefortran,

Not all filesystems support lable, I know ext2 and ext3 do and you can read about it in the man pages for the ext2fs tools.