Hello, Rusty. Rusty Conover wrote: > I'm having some trouble with my e-SATA ports being reset. I'm testing > 2.6.22.1 with the 20070808 patch tarball on a nortec ds-1220 flashed to > Silicon Image bios version 6.4.09 (the latest). > > I'm testing with 6 500gig SATA drives shown as: > > WD5000AAKS-22TMA0, 12.01C01, max UDMA/133 > > The error I'm getting is: > > ata3.04: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > ata3.04: cmd 61/00:08:3f:c9:00/04:00:00:00:00/40 tag 1 cdb 0x0 data > 524288 out > res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) > ata3.15: hard resetting link > ata3.15: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 0) > ata3.00: hard resetting link > ata3.00: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata3.01: hard resetting link > ata3.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) > ata3.02: hard resetting link > ata3.02: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) > ata3.03: hard resetting link > ata3.03: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata3.04: hard resetting link > ata3.04: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) > ata3.05: hard resetting link > ata3.05: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) > ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 > ata3.03: configured for UDMA/100 > ata3.04: configured for UDMA/100 > ata3: EH complete > > This is happening under moderate load, but it does appear to recover and > have all of the drives come back. I'd be happy to provide a full dmesg > log if desired. > > If you have any ideas how I can work around this or what's causing the > problem it would be greatly appreciated. * Please post kernel log including boot messages and errors. * Please post the result of 'hdparm -I /dev/sdX' where sdX is the offending device. * Are the errors localized to ata3.04 or are other drives affected too? * If you keep the machine running, libata will fall back to 1.5Gbps after several such errors. Do the errors go away after falling back to 1.5Gbps? Thanks. -- 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