Hard drive trouble

DIGITAL39 · 10-26-2007, 09:26 PM

Hey,

I am having some serious hard drive issues and could really use some assistance. I have Ubuntu 7.1 installed on my Dell 600m, everything but the hard drive works. I have recompiled the kernel 3 times at 2.5mb/sec. This laptop multiboots and I am able to set DMA in BackTrack, but not in Ubuntu. Here is the information from hdparm where I am unable to set DMA

Code:

hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

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

And here are all the details on the drive in both Ubuntu and the other Linux distro I have on the system, Backtrack 2.0. The only thing that is different is my ability to turn on DMA

Ubuntu 7,10

Code:

sudo hdparm -tT /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing cached reads:   1364 MB in  2.00 seconds = 682.27 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:    6 MB in  4.22 seconds =   1.42 MB/sec

BackTrack 2.0

Code:

hdparm -tT /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing cached reads:   2744 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1371.71 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  104 MB in  3.04 seconds =  34.16 MB/sec

Ubuntu 7,10

Code:

sudo hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount     =  0 (off)
 IO_support    =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq     =  0 (off)
 using_dma     =  0 (off)
 keepsettings  =  0 (off)
 readonly      =  0 (off)
 readahead     = 256 (on)
 geometry      = 65535/16/63, sectors = 117210240, start = 0

BackTrack 2.0

Code:

hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount    =  0 (off)
 IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 65535/16/63, sectors = 117210240, start = 0

Ubuntu 7.1

Code:

sudo hdparm -i /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

 Model=FUJITSU MHV2060AH, FwRev=00000096, SerialNo=NT25T592K7W4
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=117210240
 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 
 AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a:  ATA/ATAPI-2,3,4,5,6

 * signifies the current active mode

BackTrack 2.0

Code:

hdparm -i /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

 Model=FUJITSU MHV2060AH, FwRev=00000096, SerialNo=NT25T592K7W4
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=0
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=117210240
 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 
 AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a:  ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6

 * signifies the current active mode

esaym · 10-27-2007, 10:17 AM

Give us the info that

Code:

lspci

puts out

DIGITAL39 · 10-27-2007, 10:44 AM

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)

esaym · 10-29-2007, 10:42 AM

hmm are you trying hdparm -d1 /dev/hda as root?

DIGITAL39 · 10-29-2007, 11:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by esaym

hmm are you trying hdparm -d1 /dev/hda as root?

Yep

Code:

sudo hdparm -d1 /dev/hda

DIGITAL39 · 10-31-2007, 09:25 AM

Well I fixed it, but not the way I wanted to.

I ended up reinstalling Ubuntu and used Grub within Ubuntu to handle the booting. I believe it is viewing the drive as a scsi, which might be the reason it works now.

I did not want to use grub as I am not familiar with it and I boot to BackTrack more often than Ubuntu. Oh well maybe I will figure it out sometime.

Thanks for the help given