On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:51:19 +0200 (EET), Tomi Orava wrote: > > There have been some reports of intermittent errors > > with sata_promise, especially with newer disks. > > My theory is that the driver isn't initialisating the > > controller properly for SATAII 3Gbps transfer speeds. > > I did a test run with 2.6.21-rc2-git1 & your patch and > still got similar errors as without your patch ... > > My hardware consists of Promise PDC40718 (SATA 300 TX4) > 4-port sata-card & 2 older 7200.7 Seagates (200GB) and > 2 newer 7200.10 Seagates (500GB). > > It's only the 7200.10 models which creates the following type of > complaints in the system logs: > > Mar 2 11:13:40 alderan kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SEr= > r > 0x0 action 0x0 > Mar 2 11:13:40 alderan kernel: ata2.00: cmd > 25/00:00:3f:6f:a1/00:02:07:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 262144 in > Mar 2 11:13:40 alderan kernel: res > 50/00:00:3e:71:a1/00:00:9e:03:76/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error) etc Thanks for testing. Did you see my second patch to improve error decoding and reporting in sata_promise? It would be very interesting to see what additional information it logs. <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=117271432801920&w=2> is the patch I'm referring to. /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
