Hello, On Linux localhost 2.6.24-rc2-rt1 #5 SMP PREEMPT RT Sat Nov 24 13:39:15 CET 2007 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux under heavy load I get this kind of error: [27442.074715] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0xd SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen [27442.074722] ata3.00: spurious completions during NCQ issue=0x1 SAct=0xd FIS=004040a1:00000002 [27442.074735] ata3.00: cmd 61/01:00:55:69:43/00:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 512 out [27442.074736] res 40/00:18:03:77:af/00:00:05:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) [27442.074741] ata3.00: status: { DRDY } [27442.074746] ata3.00: cmd 61/08:10:73:d1:e4/00:00:03:00:00/40 tag 2 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out [27442.074748] res 40/00:00:55:69:43/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) [27442.074752] ata3.00: status: { DRDY } [27442.074757] ata3.00: cmd 61/08:18:03:77:af/00:00:05:00:00/40 tag 3 cdb 0x0 data 4096 out [27442.074758] res 40/00:00:55:69:43/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x2 (HSM violation) [27442.074762] ata3.00: status: { DRDY } [27442.377525] ata3: soft resetting link [27442.530488] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [27442.845995] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 [27442.846019] ata3: EH complete [27442.849003] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 488395055 512-byte hardware sectors (250058 MB) [27442.849054] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [27442.849057] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [27442.849097] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA It doesn't happen with vanilla kernel. Is it problem with RT patch? Error comes from ahci_port_intr. [ 29.975568] scsi0 : pata_atiixp [ 29.975702] scsi1 : pata_atiixp [ 29.974885] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xf900 irq 14 [ 29.974888] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xf908 irq 15 [ 30.280976] ata1.00: ATAPI: LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-832S, VS0B, max UDMA/33 [ 30.437898] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 [ 31.252252] scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-832S VS0B PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 31.258278] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 31.258282] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 31.258402] sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 [ 31.258516] sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5 [ 32.964056] ahci 0000:00:12.0: version 3.0 [ 32.964083] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 32.964105] ahci 0000:00:12.0: controller can't do 64bit DMA, forcing 32bit [ 32.964107] ahci 0000:00:12.0: controller can't do PMP, turning off CAP_PMP [ 33.964321] ahci 0000:00:12.0: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gbps 0xf impl SATA mode [ 33.964324] ahci 0000:00:12.0: flags: ncq sntf ilck pm led clo pio slum part [ 33.965715] scsi2 : ahci [ 33.965848] scsi3 : ahci [ 33.965940] scsi4 : ahci [ 33.966027] scsi5 : ahci [ 33.965136] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xfe02f000 port 0xfe02f100 irq 16 [ 33.965140] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xfe02f000 port 0xfe02f180 irq 16 [ 33.965144] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xfe02f000 port 0xfe02f200 irq 16 [ 33.965148] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m1024@0xfe02f000 port 0xfe02f280 irq 16 [ 34.421241] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 34.467810] ata3.00: HPA detected: current 488395055, native 488397168 [ 34.467814] ata3.00: ATA-7: ST3250820AS, 3.AAC, max UDMA/133 [ 34.467817] ata3.00: 488395055 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) [ 34.526081] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 34.983061] ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) [ 35.023125] ata4.00: HPA detected: current 488395055, native 488397168 [ 35.023129] ata4.00: ATA-7: ST3250820AS, 3.AAE, max UDMA/133 [ 35.023131] ata4.00: 488395055 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) [ 35.081404] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 35.384933] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 35.687837] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 35.687928] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3250820AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 35.688070] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 488395055 512-byte hardware sectors (250058 MB) [ 35.688083] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 35.688086] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 35.688106] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 35.688153] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 488395055 512-byte hardware sectors (250058 MB) [ 35.688164] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 35.688166] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 35.688185] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 35.688188] sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 [ 35.707963] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 35.708057] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [ 35.708173] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3250820AS 3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 35.708296] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 488395055 512-byte hardware sectors (250058 MB) [ 35.708308] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 35.708311] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 35.708331] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 35.708370] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 488395055 512-byte hardware sectors (250058 MB) [ 35.708382] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 35.708384] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 35.708405] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 35.708408] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 [ 35.730412] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk There are 2 Seagates with md RAID0 configured. 00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Unknown device b005 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 16 I/O ports at ff00 [size=8] I/O ports at fe00 [size=4] I/O ports at fd00 [size=8] I/O ports at fc00 [size=4] I/O ports at fb00 [size=16] Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Regards, Jakub - 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