Hi, I hooked up new SATA disks to a machine yesterday and set up a software raid. After copying roughly 25 GB of data onto the array all attached drives reported command timeouts and wouldn't recover. Only a reboot would help. I tried the same again, this time the drives would timeout after 60 GB of data written. I exchanged the CPU, but the same thing occurs. I'm currently in the process of testing the drives singly by writing 150GB of data onto them and seeing if they will timeout singly (so far I had one success and one complete system hang - even the CPU fan stopped spinning). My next test will be doing write-heavy operations on all four drives simulaneously, but without gathering them into a raid array. Used hardware: - 4 WD 400GB SATA RE2 drives - Promise SATA300 TX4 controller All of this was first running kernel 2.6.16.14, then after upgrading to 2.6.17.4. dmesg output is attached. Is there anything else I can test to debug this problem? Regs, Sven -- Sven Riedel sr@xxxxxxxx
Jul 7 22:26:05 planck kernel: ata1: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } Jul 7 22:26:05 planck kernel: sda: Current: sense key=0x0 Jul 7 22:26:05 planck kernel: ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 Jul 7 22:26:05 planck kernel: ata3: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } Jul 7 22:26:05 planck kernel: sdc: Current: sense key=0x0 Jul 7 22:26:05 planck kernel: ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 Jul 7 22:26:05 planck kernel: ata2: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } Jul 7 22:26:05 planck kernel: sdb: Current: sense key=0x0 Jul 7 22:26:05 planck kernel: ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 Jul 7 22:26:35 planck kernel: ata1: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } Jul 7 22:26:35 planck kernel: sda: Current: sense key=0x0 Jul 7 22:26:35 planck kernel: ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 Jul 7 22:26:35 planck kernel: ata4: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } Jul 7 22:26:35 planck kernel: sdd: Current: sense key=0x0 Jul 7 22:26:35 planck kernel: ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 Jul 7 22:26:35 planck kernel: ata3: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } Jul 7 22:26:35 planck kernel: sdc: Current: sense key=0x0 Jul 7 22:26:35 planck kernel: ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
Jul 7 20:40:39 planck kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18 (le vel, low) -> IRQ 201 Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8A80200 ctl 0xF8A8 0238 bmdma 0x0 irq 201 Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8A80280 ctl 0xF8A8 02B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 201 Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8A80300 ctl 0xF8A8 0338 bmdma 0x0 irq 201 Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8A80380 ctl 0xF8A8 03B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 201 Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 781422768 sector s: LBA48 Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: scsi0 : sata_promise Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 781422768 sector s: LBA48 Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 Jul 7 20:40:40 planck kernel: scsi1 : sata_promise Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: ata3: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 781422768 sector s: LBA48 Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: ata3: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: scsi2 : sata_promise Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: ata4: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 781422768 sector s: LBA48 Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: scsi3 : sata_promise Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD4000YR-01P Rev: 01.0 Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD4000YR-01P Rev: 01.0 Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD4000YR-01P Rev: 01.0 Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD4000YR-01P Rev: 01.0 Jul 7 20:40:41 planck kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sda: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB) Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sda: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB) Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: sda: unknown partition table Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sdb: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB) Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sdb: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB) Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: sdb: unknown partition table Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sdc: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB) Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sdc: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB) Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: sdc: unknown partition table Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc Jul 7 20:40:42 planck kernel: SCSI device sdd: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB)