Gentlemen
I thought you might be interested in the following:
I just installed CentOS 5 on a computer (kernel-2.6.18-8.1.4.el5.i686) . On
boot, I get an error message,
related to 2 SATA disks. These errors did NOT appear on version 4.4
(kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL.i586) with the
EXACT same hardware.
Despite the error messages, the disks seem to be working with no problems.
I searched the Net for these errors and they seem to appear with a wide
range of disks, controlers and chip set brands, even with different Linux
distributions.
The issue seems to be related to the last few kernel versions and is perhaps
a bug or ill
implemented "feature" of libata or ata_piix.
My configuration:
- 2 Hitachi HDS722512VLSA80 SATA 120 GB Harddisks (first generation, no NCQ)
- Intel P4 3GHz
- Tyan Tomcat i875p (S5102) motherboard, Intel ICH5 disk controler
- 1 GB ECC RAM
- 2 Intel Gb NICs
- 1 Intel 10/100 NIC
Error message follows:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x1 stat 0x51 err 0x4 (device error)
ata1: EH complete
---------------------------------------------------------------------
This repeats another 5 times, after which come the statements:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
SCSI device sda: 241254720 512-byte hdwr sectors (123522 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 241254720 512-byte hdwr sectors (123522 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
(Is this duplication normal?)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The whole thing is repeated for "ata2.00" and "SCSI device sdb"
I connected both disks to a Promise PDC20378 Sata Controler available on the
same board and the error disappears. The configuration stays EXACTLY the
same,
I only switch both disks' SATA cables to the other 2 connectors.
So, it is related to the use of the Intel 82801EB ICH5 controler that makes
the Southbridge.
Thank you
Miguel Medalha
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