Bug 4514

Summary:	cdrecord with /dev/hda hangs machine
Product:	IO/Storage	Reporter:	Jeff Wiegley (jeffw)
Component:	IDE	Assignee:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (bzolnier)
Status:	REJECTED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Severity:	high	CC:	protasnb, t8m
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.14-rc3	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	The errors that the alim15x3 controller generates...

Description Jeff Wiegley 2005-04-18 13:04:05 UTC

Distribution: Debian-pure64
Hardware Environment: Shuttle ST20G5 with Athlon FX-55
Software Environment: Shell/KDE
Problem Description:
  2.6.8-amd64-k8 (Alioth) CD burning works fine. (though slow 8x)
  In 2.6.9 the moment cdrecord starts burning the machine locks up.
  Moved to 2.6.12-rc2
  Now machine locks up solid after cdrecord has written about
  50Megs.

  Drive is SONY DVD burner, worked fine under an older ia32 box.

  drive appears as /dev/hda and seems to be using generic IDE driver.
  DMA does not get enabled for this drive. So cdrecord's max speed is
  limited to 8x.

Steps to reproduce:
  You might need a Shuttle ST20G5 box. Some of these problems might be
  the result of unsupported chipsets.

Here's the lspci output, since I think some work needs to be done on
identifying and supporting this chipset. (I'm willing to help support
the chipset but don't know how to begin; though I have a ST20G5 and
can be somebody's hands and eyes I guess)

Comment 1 Jeff Wiegley 2005-04-18 13:06:11 UTC

Ooops, forgot to include the lspci output... duh!

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5950 (rev 01)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a3f
0000:00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a38
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:19.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation M5249 HTT to PCI Bridge
0000:00:1c.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.1 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.2 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.0 0403: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 5461
0000:00:1e.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 1573 (rev 31)
0000:00:1e.1 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
0000:00:1f.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c7)
0000:00:1f.1 RAID bus controller: ALi Corporation: Unknown device 5287 (rev 02)
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5954
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit
Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
0000:03:15.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 80)

Comment 2 Jeff Wiegley 2005-05-11 15:36:43 UTC

<BEGIN SARCASM>
Very, Very nice to see how well the bug tracker is
maintained.
<END SARCASM>

Seriously, either
  a) Maintain and assign bugs, or
  b) don't put up a bug tracker like this at all.

This bug was entered three weeks ago and it hasn't been
touched since. Why did I spend the time to submit the
bug at all?

Comment 3 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 2005-05-12 00:11:00 UTC

> Seriously, either
>  a) Maintain and assign bugs, or
>  b) don't put up a bug tracker like this at all.
>
> This bug was entered three weeks ago and it hasn't been
> touched since. Why did I spend the time to submit the
> bug at all?

Your report is still useful if somebody hits the same issue
and/or wants to work on it.

Comment 4 Andrew Morton 2005-05-25 23:03:43 UTC

I assume this is still happening in 2.6.12-rc5?

If so, it might be useful to enable 

CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y

and to boot with the `nmi_watchdog=1' boot option, see
if that generates any diagnostics.

Comment 5 Jeff Wiegley 2005-10-06 16:51:14 UTC

I've tried everything with this damn bug.

Basically here is what I believe:
   The alim15x3 driver is broken.

I am now running 2.6.14-rc3. The moment I
try to do:
   cdrecord blank=all dev=ATAPI:/dev/hda

The following is generated in the log files
when cdrecord starts accessing the disc:

and cdrecord locks up. Even sending a KILL
signal to the cdrecord process fails to
wake it up. Nothing else can access /dev/hda
anymore either.

eject /dev/hda seems to work if I issue it
before trying to access data on a disc so
I'm not crazy. I have the right driver and
it is seeing the drive.

But data access through alim15x3 is broken.
*Please* prove me wrong. I've tried lots and
lots of fixes over the past *SIX* months
and nothing makes a difference. I have tried
a pioneer drive instead of my default sony
drive so I know it's not a drive hardware
issue because the pioneer does the same
thing.

Shuttle ST20G5 box with ATI radeon Xpress 200
chipset (I will never buy another ATI product.)

Please help!

Comment 6 Jeff Wiegley 2005-10-06 16:55:18 UTC

Created attachment 6247 [details]
The errors that the alim15x3 controller generates...

Comment 7 Jeff Wiegley 2005-10-09 17:39:37 UTC

Got the latest BIOS working.

Still no go. still "hda lost interrupt" occurs and it doesn't
seem possible to kill the process that triggered the offense.

And I seem to be talking to myself.
Hello?? *thump* *thump* Is this thing on?

Comment 8 Jeff Wiegley 2005-10-09 17:40:19 UTC

changed kernel version.

Comment 9 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 2006-01-19 03:18:00 UTC

This is similar to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5786
which is being worked on currently.

As 2.6.8 worked for you, could you try to identify the regression
to a particular snapshot kernel version or changeset?

Comment 10 Natalie Protasevich 2007-11-17 23:51:43 UTC

Jeff, any update from you? Is this still a problem with newer kernels?
Thanks.

Comment 11 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 2008-02-16 10:57:05 UTC

I'm closing this one, please re-open if the problem can still be reproduced with the recent kernels.