[Soekris] CompactFlash Card I/O error

[tzzhc4]

My issue turned out to be DMA related. Once since I disabled DMA by adding
ide=nodma to the grub menu.lst entry I have had no issues:

kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-386 root=/dev/hdb1 ro ide=nodma
console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8



On 10/11/06, tzzhc4 <tzzhc4 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Did you ever figure out the issue with this? I am getting the same errors
> with Debian Sarge on my net4801 with a new 4GG CF card (previously I had a
> 340mb microdrive which worked without issue). The box runs fine for a
> while
> then hangs dumps errors about DMA:
>
> ma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x01
>
> Then I get a few screens of I/O errors:
>
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 3246045
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 3246053
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 3246013
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 3273173
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdb, sector 3226125
>
> I have reformatted without issue, tried reloading, also tried the drive in
> a
> box other then my Soekris but could NOT get the error to happen. It only
> happens when the CF is running in Soekris.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
> Roberto Jose Roque Paz wrote:
> >
> > Hi:
> >
> >     I'm running several net4501 with Debian based Linux distribution.
> I'm
> > using 256 Mb Sandisk CompactFlash Card, mounted read-only. I'm using
> ext2
> > filesystem, devfsd, and linux kernel version 2.6.11.11. After certain
> > amount
> > of time soekris is up (15 minutes, or a few hours, o maybe a few days),
> y
> > see this entries in syslog file:
> >
> > Aug 24 09:52:46 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector
> > 120330
> > Aug 24 09:52:46 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector
> > 120330
> > Aug 24 09:52:46 host kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector
> > 120330
> >
> >     Those messages appears when i'm try to run some commands in console
> > (like ps, or df, but the list varies). I get a message like this:
> >
> > host:/¡$ ps axf
> > -bash: /bin/ps: Input/output error
> >
> >     this means that the shell is having trouble reading (not writting) a
> > file from disk. After a "hard reboot" everything works file again (at
> > least
> > for certain amount of time).
> >
> >     Was anyone suffering a behavior like this one?
> >
> >     Thank you in advance.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Roberto Paz
> >

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