--- Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The attached patch is inic162x driver for 2.6.19. The driver against > livata-dev#upstream didn't work on 2.6.19 due to difference in how > dev->max_sectors is handled. The driver is also available at... > > http://home-tj.org/files/sata_inic-2.6.19.patch > > Please report how it works. Thanks much for the 2.6.19 version!! Unfortunately, I have problems with all versions of the driver that I've gotten from you. Here is an excerpt from my syslog for the process of repartitioning a WD2000 (200GB drive) for the full default size and then trying to create an xfs filesystem on it. thanks, Bob ******************************************************************************* NOTE: fdisk /dev/sda - delete all partitions - add default sized primary partition (~200GB) Dec 20 18:35:47 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Dec 20 18:35:47 localhost kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Dec 20 18:35:47 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back Dec 20 18:35:47 localhost kernel: sda: sda1 Dec 20 18:35:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) Dec 20 18:35:49 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Dec 20 18:35:49 localhost kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Dec 20 18:35:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back Dec 20 18:35:49 localhost kernel: sda: sda1 NOTE: mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda1 Dec 20 18:37:27 localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x180000 action 0x2 frozen Dec 20 18:37:27 localhost kernel: ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0x35 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) Dec 20 18:37:27 localhost kernel: ata1: hard resetting port Dec 20 18:37:27 localhost kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Dec 20 18:37:27 localhost kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 Dec 20 18:37:27 localhost kernel: ata1: EH complete Dec 20 18:37:57 localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Dec 20 18:37:57 localhost kernel: ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0x35 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) Dec 20 18:37:57 localhost kernel: ata1: hard resetting port Dec 20 18:37:58 localhost kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Dec 20 18:37:58 localhost kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 Dec 20 18:37:58 localhost kernel: ata1: EH complete Dec 20 18:38:28 localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Dec 20 18:38:28 localhost kernel: ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0x35 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) Dec 20 18:38:28 localhost kernel: ata1: hard resetting port Dec 20 18:38:28 localhost kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Dec 20 18:38:28 localhost kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 Dec 20 18:38:28 localhost kernel: ata1: EH complete Dec 20 18:38:58 localhost kernel: ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/100 Dec 20 18:38:58 localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x180000 action 0x2 frozen Dec 20 18:38:58 localhost kernel: ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0x35 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) Dec 20 18:38:58 localhost kernel: ata1: hard resetting port Dec 20 18:38:59 localhost kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Dec 20 18:38:59 localhost kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 Dec 20 18:38:59 localhost kernel: ata1: EH complete Dec 20 18:39:29 localhost kernel: ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/66 Dec 20 18:39:29 localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Dec 20 18:39:29 localhost kernel: ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0x35 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) Dec 20 18:39:29 localhost kernel: ata1: hard resetting port Dec 20 18:39:29 localhost kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Dec 20 18:39:29 localhost kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 Dec 20 18:39:29 localhost kernel: ata1: EH complete Dec 20 18:39:59 localhost kernel: ata1.00: limiting speed to UDMA/44 Dec 20 18:39:59 localhost kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen Dec 20 18:39:59 localhost kernel: ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0x35 Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) Dec 20 18:39:59 localhost kernel: ata1: hard resetting port Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/44 Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002 Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: sda: Current: sense key: Aborted Command Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: Additional sense: No additional sense information Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 390716609 Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: ata1: EH complete Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Dec 20 18:40:00 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back NOTE: mkfs.xfs reports: pwrite64 failed: Input/output error - 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