Tejun Heo wrote:
Brad Campbell wrote:
G'day all,
This has been happening on a lightly loaded box for a while now. I have
posted about it before.
The issue is now I've upgraded 3 drives from 250GB Maxtors to 750GB
WD's, it's just getting worse, particularly when the drives are loaded.
I've jumpered the WD's to 1.5GB PHY speed (I had to do that or the
on-board via sata controller would not recognise one of the drives.
The box is a bit of a mish-mash of controllers. I have 3 Promise
SATA150TX4, one SIL3112 (all on PCI cards) and the on-board 2 port VIA
driver.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do really, short of replacing the
Promise cards with something else.
ATA bus error is a strong indicator for hardware problem. Please get a
separate power supply (doesn't have to be an expensive one), power it up
[1], and connect some of the drives to the power supply and see whether
errors persist on those drives.
Hrm, I did try that a while back. I'll give that a bash again tonight.
This is only happening on the Promise cards. The drives on the SIL and VIA controllers will work as
hard as I care to work them and never fault.
I'll try and do a GIT bisection this evening, If I go back to 2.6.16 I get no errors and the system
works perfectly well. Same can be said for the failure to shut down actually. 2.6.16 worked flawlessly.
Brad
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