Hi. Reproducible with only one disk and one card on one SATA port. The card has 3 ports. 2 internal, 1 external. The internal closer to the external and the extrenal has the problem. Just doing cat /dev/disk > /dev/null or any intensive IO - it happens in less then aprox 30sec. Or setting raid speed min and max to some high number and do a resync with multiple disks can trigger similar write error. Anyway got already 6 different cards and all behave similarly plus one of the internal ports is rock solid while the other has problems so I take it as falty design and RMA hoprfully last time now to legaly request money back. ______________________________________________________________ > Od: htejun@xxxxxxxxx > Komu: drtyc@xxxxxxxxxx > CC: linux-ide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Datum: 02.02.2008 06:11 > Předmět: Re: excess timeouts accessing pci-sata card both ports > >drtyc@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Removed 3 drives. Both data and power. >> Left only port1 connected >> It's the drive and power cable that in the first test was port2 failing >> and in second test was port1 and ok >> both cards plugged in and initialized. >> third test it's the port1 alone sda working ok >> fourth test it's the port2 alone sda failing. >> >> any idea what's wrong as this does not seem to be power related problem. >> >> vanilla 2.6.23.14 >> sata_via module... details in the inlined emails. >> >> (4th test config) >> ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) >> ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) >> ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) >> ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) >> >> Faulty card? Both cards? Driver bug? Or design bug/incompatibility on second port? > >It seems like you're experiencing transmission problems on reads. >SError value of 0x3000400 is Protocol Error, Link Sequence Error and >Transport State Transition Error. Hardresetting the link should usually >recover from such conditions but error handling on via has never been >reliable. How easily can you trigger the problem? > >Thanks. > >-- >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
