jeffunit wrote: > >> 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. And you were accessing the same region of the drive? > 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. Hmmm... Yes please. Also, please report the result of "smartctl -a /dev/sda". -- 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