[KLUG Members] partition check?

[Adam Williams]

>>>During boot up I get a time out on Partition check.
>>Can you get the exact message from dmesg?
>Here is portion of the output from dmesg
>ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1020-0x1027, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
>hda: IBM-DTCA-23240, ATA DISK drive
>ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>hda: 6354432 sectors (3253 MB) w/468KiB Cache, CHS=788/128/63, UDMA(33)
>ide-floppy driver 0.97
>Partition check:
> hda:hda: timeout waiting for DMA
>ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
>hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
>hda: drive not ready for command
> hda1 hda2 hda3
>hda: timeout waiting for DMA
>ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma_timeout func only: 14
>hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
>hda: drive not ready for command
>This portion get repeated multible times
>hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
>hda: drive not ready for command
>>>I have had RH 7.2
>>>installed on it for a couple months and I am assuming it has done this
>>>ever since the beging.  Although it is timing out everything seems to 
>>>work fine.

Yes, I've seen machines that do this habitually,  but usually only when
running on older kernels.  Try going into BIOS and finding a setting
about UDMA, etc... and turning it off.  Might help to check your IDE
cable as well.

>>Can you boot into single user mode and manually run fsck on your root
>>partition/md/lvm?
>I did this as you suggested and I get the sam resaults.

Yes, it won't help the above situation.