Mikael Pettersson wrote: > I've seen reports of issues like these with second-generation > Promise SATA chips and SATAII (3Gbps) drives, but this is the > first time I've seen any issues with a first-generation chip. > > 1. Please try 2.6.21-rc6 plus the following two patches: > http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/2.6/patch-sata_promise-1-separate-sata-pata-ops-2.6.21-rc6 > http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/2.6/patch-sata_promise-2-error_intr-2.6.21-rc6 > > This probably won't eliminate the errors, but should improve > the level of detail in the error messages. I'll do this tonight and send updated logs, thanks. > 2. Try with a better power supply and verify that cooling is OK. > Also verify that the SATA data and power cables are firmly attached. My power supply is well over-sized for my machine (Antec 480W), so that shouldn't be a problem. I double checked all my SATA data and power cables. I also tried switching from SATA-power to PATA-power cables (my drives support both) to see if that made a difference (it didn't). I've reseated my cables, switched cable order, etc. to see if I had a bad cable, but no evidence I do. > We've seen several reports of mysterious issues that eventually > were traced to insufficient power supplies or poorly seated > PCI cards (but in your case the chip is integrated on the mobo). Understandable. I saw several reports like that on the list, and hence tried the above. Thanks for your time, I'll get you updated logs tonight. -- Phil Dibowitz phil@xxxxxxxx Open Source software and tech docs Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Never write it in C if you can do it in 'awk'; Never do it in 'awk' if 'sed' can handle it; Never use 'sed' when 'tr' can do the job; Never invoke 'tr' when 'cat' is sufficient; Avoid using 'cat' whenever possible" -- Taylor's Laws of Programming
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