Hi everyone. Quite regularly I get these messages popping up when I'm rebuilding a raid5. ata2: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } sdb: Current: sense key=0x0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 I'm using a Promise TX4 150 controller with 4 HDs, making a raid5 with 40GB partitions. In the dmesg below, I only received 2 errors, but with larger partitions in the array, it can be up to about 10 or 12. After poking through the source a bit, it looks like bit 19 has been set in the global control register and a reset is being performed. If the error is being cleared properly (I noticed there's no checking for this), should this message be printed? I did some checksums on a raid before and after a rebuild, and even after a whole host of messages it doesn't look like the data was affected at all. Is this a matter of shutting up a superfluous message, or is something more sinister going on here? Please let me know if you need more information. Erik Frederiksen Firmware Design Engineer Co-op PMC-Sierra Saskatoon -- C Driver v1.07 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.4 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled ttyS0 at MMIO 0xc0000000 (irq = 0) is a 16550A ttyS1 at MMIO 0xc0000030 (irq = 0) is a 16550A io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered loop: loaded (max 8 devices) PMC-Sierra MSP85x0 10/100/1000 Ethernet Driver Device Id : 206014, Version : 0 (88E1011): port 0 with MAC address 00:e0:04:00:02:aa Rx NAPI supported, Tx Coalescing ON (88E1011): port 1 with MAC address 00:e0:04:00:02:ab Rx NAPI supported, Tx Coalescing ON libata version 1.20 loaded. sata_promise 0000:00:02.0: version 1.04 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC001E200 ctl 0xC001E238 bmdma 0x0 irq 11 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC001E280 ctl 0xC001E2B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 11 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC001E300 ctl 0xC001E338 bmdma 0x0 irq 11 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xC001E380 ctl 0xC001E3B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 11 ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:00ff ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA7, 156301488 sectors: LBA48 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : sata_promise ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) ata2: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003 88:007f ata2: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 160086528 sectors: LBA ata2: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : sata_promise ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) ata3: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f01 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c01 87:4023 88:00ff ata3: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA7, 156301488 sectors: LBA48 ata3: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi2 : sata_promise ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113) ata4: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7b09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3a01 87:4003 88:007f ata4: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 160086528 sectors: LBA ata4: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi3 : sata_promise Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG HD080HJ Rev: ZH10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y080M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG HD080HJ Rev: ZH10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y080M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 gd->devfs_name [scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0] gd->disk_name[sda] SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 gd->devfs_name [scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0] gd->disk_name[sdb] SCSI device sdb: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 sdb2 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 gd->devfs_name [scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0] gd->disk_name[sdc] SCSI device sdc: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdc: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back sdc: sdc1 Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 gd->devfs_name [scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0] gd->disk_name[sdd] SCSI device sdd: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB) SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdd: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB) SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back sdd: sdd1 Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 physmap flash device: 800000 at fc800000 phys_mapped_flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 8-bit bank Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040 phys_mapped_flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top. number of CFI chips: 1 cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness. RedBoot partition parsing not available ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) usbcore: registered new driver usblp drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver i2c /dev entries driver md: linear personality registered as nr 1 md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2 md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 md: raid10 personality registered as nr 9 md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4 raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs : 528.000 MB/sec 8regs_prefetch: 512.000 MB/sec 32regs : 1032.000 MB/sec 32regs_prefetch: 968.000 MB/sec raid5: using function: 32regs (1032.000 MB/sec) md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 3.39 device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) TCP reno registered ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team TCP bic registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> Assigned IRQ 5 to port 1 IP-Config: Complete: device=eth1, addr=192.168.183.59, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=255.255.255.255, host=192.168.183.59, domain=, nis-domain=(none), bootserver=192.168.183.102, rootserver=192.168.183.102, rootpath= md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.183.102 Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.183.102 VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed md: bind<sda1> md: bind<sdb1> md: bind<sdc1> md: bind<sdd1> raid5: device sdc1 operational as raid disk 2 raid5: device sdb1 operational as raid disk 1 raid5: device sda1 operational as raid disk 0 raid5: allocated 4195kB for md0 raid5: raid level 5 set md0 active with 3 out of 4 devices, algorithm 2 RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:4 wd:3 fd:1 disk 0, o:1, dev:sda1 disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb1 disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc1 RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:4 wd:3 fd:1 disk 0, o:1, dev:sda1 disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb1 disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc1 disk 3, o:1, dev:sdd1 md: syncing RAID array md0 md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 1000 KB/sec/disc. md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for reconstruction. md: using 128k window, over a total of 39061952 blocks. ata2: 19 ata2: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } sdb: Current: sense key=0x0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 Info fld=0x116bcce ata2: 19 ata2: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } sdb: Current: sense key=0x0 ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0 Info fld=0x2c22e96 md: md0: sync done. RAID5 conf printout: --- rd:4 wd:4 fd:0 disk 0, o:1, dev:sda1 disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb1 disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc1 disk 3, o:1, dev:sdd1 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html