jeffunit wrote: > I built a kernel, 2.6.23.1 today. > My motherboard is an intel stl2, dual pentium 933 motherboard, with > about 3gb of ram. > I also have a promise tx100 controller with an ata hard drive for the > os, and a sony dvdrw drive. > There is an intel gigabit ethernet card, and an ati pci video card. > > I have an 8 port supermicro sata II controller with the marvell > 888SX6081 chipset. > I have four 500gb sata II maxtor hard drives attached to it. > > All except /dev/sda1 seem to work fine. > When I copy/modify files on /dev/sda1, I get the following dmesg errors: > > The machine is designed to be a fileserver, but I am happy to help debug > this issue to the best > of my abilities. > > When I boot windows xp, xp sees all 4 of the sata drives, and they work > without any problems. > > Please advise, > jeff > > ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > ata1.00: edma_err 0x00000084, EDMA self-disable > ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:37:02:90/00:00:00:00:00/e5 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 4096 in > res 51/40:00:37:02:90/00:00:00:00:00/e5 Emask 0x9 (media error) Media errors which is usually localized to certain area of disk. Replace disk.
The disk works fine under windows xp. I never got any errors with it and xp. I can swap the first and second hard drive. With the old kernel, the errors stayed with whatever drive was hooked up to the first port of the controller. I will report the results. jeff - 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
