Hello, Gabor FUNK wrote: >> What I said was that timeouts occurring due to transmission errors >> should be recoverable. It seems like IRQ delivery didn't work probably >> due to screaming IRQ. I need to see the messages before the first >> relevant error message. It's always a good idea to post full kernel log >> from boot till failure. Things which don't seem relevant are often >> relevant. > Naturally. Full kern.log with boot: > http://www.huweb.hu/maques/tmp/jmicron/kern.log > (no edits, there are really only those 2 lines between Feb 6 and Feb 9's > 1st exception) Hmmm... Indeed. This is the first time this mode of failure is reported. > Previously there was kernel 2.6.23.9 and I noticed the following in > syslog by then: > Feb 6 19:10:19 storage1 kernel: ata4: D2H reg with I during NCQ, this > message won't be printed again > Feb 6 19:10:20 storage1 kernel: ata1: D2H reg with I during NCQ, this > message won't be printed again > Feb 6 19:10:20 storage1 kernel: ata2: D2H reg with I during NCQ, this > message won't be printed again > Feb 6 19:10:21 storage1 kernel: ata3: D2H reg with I during NCQ, this > message won't be printed again > > I googled and saw that there was some fixes related to this (maybe it > was you), so that's why we hoped that 2.6.24 will fix this. Actually the > above error messages were gone, but... Yeap, those are gone. >> Till now, none of this kind of problem has been tracked down to MB or >> the controller while 90% of hardware problems turned out to be power >> related. > I'll put a brand new, probably different PSU in the case and put the MB > and the 4 disks of the problematic controller on it, and put the 2 system > and other 4 disks to this one (or even another one). Yeap, please keep me posted. > Meanwhile I'd welcome if you have any suggestion why controller reset > causing a "fatal error"... > BTW, the drives were accessible after the array broke (when I got there). What do you mean by 'drives were accessible'? /dev/sdX nodes were accessible? -- 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