James Ray wrote: > Jeff, All, > We have just started using some new machines with The Intel ESB2 > chipset in them (PCI Id: 8086:2681) for the SATA Controller. > With any kernels above 2.6.15 (as far as I can tell from my testing at > least) we are getting problems with them. > > This is the output I have managed to collect from the server (Its hard > to get much more since the system gets more and more unresponsive as > these errors progress): > <3>ata2.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x80002 action 0x2 frozen > <3>ata2.00: (irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error) > <3>ata2.00: tag 0 cmd 0x35 Emask 0x10 stat 0x50 err 0x0 (ATA bus error) > <6>ata2: soft resetting port > <3>ata2: softreset failed (1st FIS failed) > <4>ata2: softreset failed, retrying in 5 secs > <6>ata2: hard resetting port > <4>ata2: port is slow to respond, please be patient Can you test 2.6.20.1 and report full dmesg? Thanks. -- tejun - 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