Lars Michael Jogbäck wrote: > I have a system with a Sil3124 controller and two Sil3726 port multipliers. > I'm running 2.6.18.1 with the patches from > http://home-tj.org/wiki/index.php/Libata-tj-stable > since I was not able to get the port multipler to work at all with > 2.6.21 (perhaps the support for PMP is not fully integrated there). > > One of my Sil3726 is freezing my system approx one time per hour when > the disks are under load. > > ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > ata5.00: tag 0 cmd 0xea Emask 0x4 stat 0x40 err 0x0 (timeout) Hmmm... that's FLUSH_CACHE timing out. > I suspect that the root-cause of the problem could be drive-related. All > the disks on the other Sil3726 are WD4000KD's and the > disks attached to this one is 3xWD4000KD and 1xWD4000KS and 1xSamsung > HD501LJ. Is there a way of test this? I think the disk attached to port 0 might be bad. Please report the result of 'smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdX' where sdX is the device attached to the failing port. > Is there an updated patch-set for port multipliers in a later kernel > than 2.6.18.1? Sorry but not yet. -- 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
