(cc: linux-ide added) On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:26:07 +0100, Roel Teuwen wrote: > I am seeing the exact same 'problem'. I have 4 WDC WD2500KS-00MJB0 > drives connected to a promise SATA300 TX4. The messages have been > flooding syslog since the drives were installed. Running 2.6.18 or > 2.6.19 vanilla kernels. > > Best regards, > > Roel Teuwen > > On 10/25/06, Gregory Brauer <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I have a new Promise SATA300 TX4 4-port SATA controller > > to which I have attached two older WD2500JD hard drives > > and two brand new WD2500KS hard drives. The older drives > > seem to work fine, but both of the brand new hard drives > > trigger the following errors every few seconds during > > i/o: > > > > > > Oct 25 13:57:18 gleep kernel: ata3: no sense translation for status: 0x50 > > Oct 25 13:57:18 gleep kernel: ata3: translated ATA stat/err 0x50/00 to SCSI > > SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > > Oct 25 13:57:18 gleep kernel: ata3: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > > Oct 25 13:57:26 gleep kernel: ata1: no sense translation for status: 0x50 > > Oct 25 13:57:26 gleep kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x50/00 to SCSI > > SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > > Oct 25 13:57:26 gleep kernel: ata1: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > > Oct 25 13:57:27 gleep kernel: ata1: no sense translation for status: 0x50 > > Oct 25 13:57:27 gleep kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x50/00 to SCSI > > SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > > Oct 25 13:57:27 gleep kernel: ata1: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > > Oct 25 13:57:31 gleep kernel: ata1: no sense translation for status: 0x50 > > Oct 25 13:57:31 gleep kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x50/00 to SCSI > > SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > > Oct 25 13:57:31 gleep kernel: ata1: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > > Oct 25 13:57:47 gleep kernel: ata3: no sense translation for status: 0x50 > > Oct 25 13:57:47 gleep kernel: ata3: translated ATA stat/err 0x50/00 to SCSI > > SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 > > Oct 25 13:57:47 gleep kernel: ata3: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > > > > > > The machine stays running normally, and any processes doing data > > I/O do not pause noticeably, but these errors are very annoying. > > Is there anything I can do to help troubleshoot this? > > > > (Note that I am aware of the drive id mapping issue with my Promise > > controller, and I am *positive* that it is the two new drives that > > are the one's that the error messages refer to.) If you move the disks around, do the errors stay on the same ports (ata1/ata3), or do they move to different ports (ata2/ata4)? I was looking briefly at the port mapping issue on 4-port Promise controllers yesterday and noticed a bit of programming magic in Promise's driver that Linux doesn't do, and which affects two of the four ports. That _could_ explain your issues. /Mikael - To unsubscribe from this list: 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