those errors apears only when I use the harddrives with the sii controller and only when I make operation between the onboard sata and the sii sata controller, operations between ide and drives that are on sii works perfectly... On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Dan Nica wrote: > > hello > > > > I have a problem with a serial ata controller > > that uses a SiI 3512 chip. > > A complete dmesg, complete lspci would be helpful. > > > > when I'm trying to add a device thats on the 3512 controller to the array > > that I have, it give me lots of errors in dmesg > > like this: > > > > ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x2400000 action 0x0 > > ata3.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x8652001 > > ata3.00: cmd 35/00:80:3f:5c:03/00:02:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 327680 > > out > > res 51/04:80:3f:5e:03/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error) > > That's the device reporting an error, when the system issued a WRITE command > ("cmd 35/....."), and the SiI controller is happily reporting that error to > you. > > I would worry about the device, if it is reporting errors on WRITE. > > 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