Hi Mikael Pettersson wrote:
I'm easily able to reproduce this problem on my sata_promise test rig. Using 2.6.23-rc5 to dd read a single Seagate disk on a SATA300 TX4 card quickly fails as Peter described. Applying the 1.5Gbps patch to the driver appears to make things stable. Those SATAII chips really don't seem to like 3Gbps mode. Or else we're missing some critical documentation on how to make them work.
The funny thing is: I have the exact same adapter and disks in a Dell PE1800 server. This doesn't show any errors.
Only difference is the card is in a PCI-X slot and the server is running Linux 2.6.19.5. dmesg from that box: sata_promise 0000:02:06.0: version 1.04 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:06.0[A] -> GSI 32 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8816200 ctl 0xF8816238 bmdma 0x0 irq 18 ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8816280 ctl 0xF88162B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 18 ata7: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8816300 ctl 0xF8816338 bmdma 0x0 irq 18 ata8: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8816380 ctl 0xF88163B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 18 scsi4 : sata_promise ata5: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata5.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata5.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi5 : sata_promise ata6: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata6.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi6 : sata_promise ata7: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata7.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata7.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi7 : sata_promise ata8: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) ata8.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 976773168 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata8.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3500630NS 3.AE PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sdc: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdc: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back sdc: unknown partition table sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3500630NS 3.AE PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back sdd: unknown partition table sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdd sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3500630NS 3.AE PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sde: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sde: Write Protect is off sde: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sde: drive cache: write back SCSI device sde: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sde: Write Protect is off sde: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sde: drive cache: write back sde: unknown partition table sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sde sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0 scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3500630NS 3.AE PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sdf: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdf: Write Protect is off sdf: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdf: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdf: Write Protect is off sdf: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write back sdf: unknown partition table sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdf sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0 I'll try to test as Mikael suggested. Best regards, Peter - 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
