Hey everyone,

This is my first post, so please be patient if I am doing something wrong - and thank you in advance

So I setup a mini-ITX box using Slack 10 as an mp3 server. Mostly everything works, except I notice that occasionally, my mp3s halt while playing and my system just freezes. I took a look at syslog and this is what I found:


Jan 7 11:33:25 ViaMMC kernel: hda: status error: status=0x00 { }
Jan 7 11:33:25 ViaMMC kernel:
Jan 7 11:33:25 ViaMMC kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Jan 7 11:33:45 ViaMMC kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Jan 7 11:33:55 ViaMMC kernel: hda: error waiting for DMA
Jan 7 11:33:55 ViaMMC kernel: hda: dma timeout retry: status=0x00 { }
Jan 7 11:33:55 ViaMMC kernel:


Output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266]
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 80)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge
00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)


Kernel version: 2.4.26

I think that should cover most of the relevant info I was thinking doing a bad-block check, but I already ran one two nites ago, so I doubt that's it. Thanks,

Jai

i don't know that much but maybe enable/disable DMA for the drive... enabling is better, that i know

I'm sorry, but i don't know how you enable or disable it... but i know it's possible. Try google, maybe ??

(I'm still learning, like many )

I'm in the same boat. I think I have seen others use the "hdparam" command, but I have been unable to find more information about it.

When I had that problem, it turned out to be the hard drive data cable had a loose connection. I didn't happen much at first but it got worse to the point where I had to issolate the problem. New cable worked for me.

I have seen a few posts on google about it being a problem with VIA chipsets and what not.. anyone have any more info?