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Matthew "Cheetah" Gabeler-Lee wrote:
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I have three samsung hdds (/sys/block/sda/device/model says SAMSUNG
SP2504C) in a raid configuration. My system frequently (2-3x/day)
experiences temporary lockups, which produce messages as below in my
dmesg/syslog. The system recovers, but the hang is annoying to say the
least.
All three drives are connected to sata_nv ports. Oddly, it almost
always happens on ata6 or ata7 (the second and third ports of that 4
port setup on my motherboard). There is an identical drive connected at
ata5, but I've only once or twice seen it hit that drive.
Googling around lkml.org, I found a few threads investigating what look
like very similar problems, some of which never seemed to find the
solution, but one of which came up with a fairly quick answer it seemed,
namely that the drive's NCQ implementation was horked:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/18/32
While I don't have older logs to verify exactly when this started, it
was fairly recent, perhaps around my 2.6.20.1 to 2.6.21.1 kernel
upgrade.
Any other info or tests I can provide/run to help?
Syslog snippet:
Jun 21 10:35:23 cheetah kernel: ata6: EH in ADMA mode, notifier 0x0 notifier_error 0x0 gen_ctl 0x1501000 status 0x400 next cpb count 0x0 next cpb idx 0x0
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: ata6: CPB 0: ctl_flags 0x9, resp_flags 0x0
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: ata6: timeout waiting for ADMA IDLE, stat=0x400
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: ata6: timeout waiting for ADMA LEGACY, stat=0x400
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: ata6.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: ata6: soft resetting port
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: ata6: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: ata6: EH complete
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: sdb: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
Jun 21 10:35:24 cheetah kernel: SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Unfortunately, this kind of problem is rather difficult to diagnose.
Essentially what's happened is that we've sent a command (in this case a
cache flush) to the controller but it's given no indication that it's
done anything with it (somewhat different from the case in the link you
mentioned above, where the controller indicates it's sent the command
and is waiting for completion). This could be some kind of drive issue
or drive/controller incompatibility, a controller bug, the driver doing
something the controller doesn't expect..
Does this drive actually support NCQ? I can't tell from this part of the
log.
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