Hello, > Peter Favrholdt wrote: >> My feeling is this is not caused by 1.5Gbps or 3.0Gbps operation. >> <...snip> >> My next test will be a plain 2.6.21rc2. Then I'll apply the patches one >> by one. > > I've tested 2.6.21-rc2 which fails (sdc down after 27 minutes & sdd down > after 46 minutes). > > Then I applied just a single patch to 2.6.21-rc2: Mikael Petterssons > patch to force 1.5Gbps operation and tested again - this time no > problems at all! > > (BTW: both kernels are running with IO-APIC disabled). > > I've put results+dmesg output here: http://sata300tx4.gratiswiki.dk/ I had the oppoturnity to test Mikael's 1,5Gbps patch yesterday evening and although the system seems to run OK, I still do get the following system log messages: Mar 13 06:10:22 alderan kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Mar 13 06:10:22 alderan kernel: ata2.00: cmd c8/00:30:0f:e2:86/00:00:00:00:00/e7 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 24576 in Mar 13 06:10:22 alderan kernel: res 50/00:00:3e:e2:86/00:00:00:00:00/e7 Emask 0x1 (device error) Mar 13 06:10:22 alderan kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Mar 13 06:10:22 alderan kernel: ata2: EH complete Mar 13 06:10:22 alderan kernel: SCSI device sdb: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) Mar 13 06:10:22 alderan kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Mar 13 06:10:22 alderan kernel: SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Mar 13 06:11:23 alderan kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 52223. Sending cookies. Mar 13 06:13:05 alderan kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 52223. Sending cookies. Mar 13 06:13:23 alderan kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Mar 13 06:13:23 alderan kernel: ata2.00: cmd 25/00:00:27:29:73/00:02:07:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 262144 in Mar 13 06:13:23 alderan kernel: res 50/00:00:26:2b:73/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error) Mar 13 06:13:23 alderan kernel: ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 Mar 13 06:13:23 alderan kernel: ata2: EH complete Mar 13 06:13:23 alderan kernel: SCSI device sdb: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) Mar 13 06:13:23 alderan kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Mar 13 06:13:23 alderan kernel: SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA If Mikael does have an updated patch for the more detailed error reporting features, I'll try to run it in a few days of time whenever I get my hands on it. I would be really interested to know why the Promise Sata300TX4 doesn't play along the newer 500GB Seagate 7200.10 disks while the older models are Ok (I've already tried with and without 1,5Gbps jumpers and patches). Regards, Tomi Orava -- - 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
