Rodrigo Severo wrote: > SMART Error Log Version: 1 > No Errors Logged It seemed like a transmission problem so I was hoping the drive's SMART log recorded something. Apparently not. :-( > This is the SATA board running now. Everything else is exactly the > same. I got no syslog messages after rsyncing 255GB. > > I believe the smartctl output is still valid despite having other SATA > board. Yeap, it's valid. > Please let me know if there is anything else I can do to help debug this > issue. > > I can put the ULi M5281/M5283 back for tests. ULi SATA is a fairly standard controller and the driver doesn't do much other than feeding IO addresses to generic ATA layer, so there's nothing much to go wrong there. It might be a genuine hardware problem on the controller side or driver missing some undocumented magic tweaks. I think the former is more likely. Occasional errors should be okay. libata EH can recover most conditions and there won't be any data integrity problem. Too long timeout (30s) can be a problem tho. Unfortunately, I don't think we have much to go on here. Both SError register and SMART log aren't reporting anything useful. :-( -- 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
